GAP BRAZIL: Chimpanzees Feel Safe in Latin America’s Largest Primate Sanctuary
SAO PAULO – Far away from their nerve-wracking days as a spectacle for the public, some 50 chimpanzees live together in Sorocaba, a small Brazilian town repurposed as a refuge for big primates recovering from a traumatic life in zoos and circuses. High up a cement tower, a 20-year-old chimpanzee named Dolores
African drama: Chimpanzees in Guinea Stranded without Safe Water
The Chimpanzee Conservation Center is a PASA _ Pan Afican Sanctuaries Alliance - member that gives long-term care to 52 chimpanzees who have been rescued from bushmeat hunting, the illegal wildlife trade, and other forms of cruelty, and works to save chimps from extinction. CCC is in an extremely remote location in
On January 31, 1961, the United States Air Force sent a baby chimpanzee, a little over 3 years old, to the space in a 16-minute flight that would test the risk of the journey for the first human astronaut, Alan Shepard Jr., who would later fly out of Earth's atmosphere. Ham was born
GAP IVORY COAST: Forests Cavally and Goin Débé biodiversity threatened by cocoa production
By Serge Soiret The forests of Cavally and Goin Débé, the last ones still well protected in Ivory Coast are threatened! Why? Because 40 % of the national production of cocoa come from these forests. Ivory Coast (West Africa country) is the world's largest producer of brown gold since 1978. According to
GAP Mexico: Invictus – How a black bear helped end cruelty in Mexican circuses
In Mexico, it took the fight to end the cruelty of the circuses that exploit animals more than a decade to achieve its main goal. The story of an American black bear contributed in stopping this animal abuse. This American black bear was called Nait the Dancer, and was forced
The massacre and flight of human prisoners in Manaus prisons in the state of Amazonas, north of Brazil, has sparked a debate in Brazilian society about the cost of keeping human primates prisoners. Due to the disparity of costs that we are going to display here, there is no doubt
Baby Chimp Makes New Friends While He Waits To Reunite With Mom
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts (The Dodo) Little Larry the chimp was a big surprise to everyone — perhaps even his own mother. Little Larry's mother Loko has lived at a sanctuary in Cameroon run by Ape Action Africa since 2007, when she lost her own mom to poachers as a baby. Loko
Orangutan in Zoo Who Refuses to be Caged Causes $200,000 Worth of Damage
Orangutans are incredible primates, they are highly social, emotional, and intelligent. Amazingly, orangutans share 97 percent of the same DNA as humans. Sadly, despite the genetic and social similarities that we might share with orangutans, some people insist on keeping these beautiful creatures held in captivity. One orangutan, captive at the
TV show “Fantástico” (Globo channel) exhibited last Sunday, November 27 (watch here, in Portuguese), an interview in which I talked about an operation carried out by the Student Revolutionary Directory of Cuba (DRE, in Spanish), which I chaired in Exile in 1962, to try to assassinate dictator Fidel Castro during an
Historic court ruling in Argentina orders zoo chimpanzee is moved to Sanctuary affiliated to GAP Project
A historic court judgment for Animal Rights struggle was featured in the world press last week. Thanks to an application for Habeas Corpus request by AFADA (Argentina Lawyers Association for the Rights of Animals), Judge Maria Alejandra Mauricio determined that chimpanzee Cecilia, who lives at the zoo in the city
In late 2007, I was in England and I made a point of going to London Zoo, to visit the newly opened and trendy Gorilla Kingdom. By the nature of my work, I went with the critical keen sense, already expecting what I would find in a situation of great apes
Chimpanzee seen smoking at North Korea’s reopened zoo
Visitors to a newly reopened zoo in North Korea have been flocking to a new attraction: a smoking chimpanzee. According to officials at the Central zoo in Pyongyang, which has been criticised for animal cruelty in the past, the 19-year-old female chimpanzee Azalea, Dallae in Korean, smokes a pack a
Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’
By Virginia Morell (Science AAAS) All great mind reading begins with chocolate. That’s the basis for a classic experiment that tests whether children have something called theory of mind—the ability to attribute desires, intentions, and knowledge to others. When they see someone hide a chocolate bar in a
In an unfortunate article published in Brazilian magazine Isto É this week, signed by journalist Raul Montenegro, a complaint that should put humans as victimizers convert them into victims and chimpanzees, in guilty. The article is based on the abandonment of a group of chimpanzees in an ignored island in the
New data shows ‘staggering’ extent of great ape trade
By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent, Johannesburg A new database suggests say there has been a dramatic under-reporting of the live, illegal trade in great apes. Around 1,800 orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas were seized in 23 different countries since 2005, the figures show. Since 90% of the cases were within national borders they didn't appear
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