Great Ape Project denounces a Spanish Royal Decree in the EU that opposes to CITES agreement
Great Ape Project has recently asked the European Parliament to repeal the Royal Decree 1333/2006 which regulates the destiny of animals who are seized in Spain, for the decree is considered to go against the international rules from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (
THE GUANTANAMO OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by PEDRO POZAS TERRADOS Executive Director Proyecto Gran Simio (GAP Spain) / President, GAP Project International Great Ape Project International, which works with the aim of getting the great apes’ basic rights, the end of the captivity of non-human living beings and the closing of
Risk to a small child doesn’t immediately justify killing an innocent gorilla. Clive Phillips argues Cincinatti Zoo failed Harambe in choosing to kill him. The killing of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo this week has aroused public sentiment in a way reminiscent of the public outrage caused by
The television news program of most audience on Brazilian TV, "Jornal Nacional", made an unprecedented parenthesis in the disclosure of recorded political talks to release news that rarely is considered to be relevant. The 17-year-old gorilla Harambe, who lived in the Cincinnati Zoo, in the United States, was shot dead
Will You Make Sure Bihati Gets the Medical Care She Needs?
Dear Primate Supporter, Bihati was saved from a failed sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo six years ago. Well-intentioned foreigners started a sanctuary for primates but ran out of money and simply left the country, leaving the animals in cages. Bihati and other chimpanzees and monkeys were found in
Humans are relatives, not descendants of great apes. We have with them a common ancestor who lived in Africa about 7 million years ago By Reinaldo José Lopes (Super Interessante Magazine) If man is an evolution of the monkey, why there are still chimpanzees around? This is a very tricky question,
North American Universities as primate torture centers
The decision of New Iberia “Torture” Center, which belongs to the University of Louisiana at campus Lafayette (ULL), to transfer its 220 chimpanzees to a Sanctuary under construction in Georgia is the tip of iceberb, well hidden until recently, of the Primate Torture Industry in North American universities. Currently, the three
We offer our welcome to GAP Project Uruguay. You arrived in good time, to walk together for the Rights of Great Apes, the protection of their habitats and against zoos and circuses with animals, including water parks. We will give all the support to your work and be aware that
Great Ape Project Germany, which maintains contact with GAP International and GAP Spain, joined the International Campaign for UNESCO to declare the great apes as Living World Heritage. GAP Germany is conducting a series of contacts with the German Green Party and the animalistic and ecological associations of the country,
New Web Tool Facilitates Joint Efforts to Protect Great Apes and Fight Climate Change
A web-based tool that superimposes maps of valuable underground carbon stocks with great ape distribution in Africa and Asia – thereby making the strongest possible argument for protecting both – was launched in April in Monrovia, Liberia, by the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the United Nations Collaborative Programme for Reducing
GAP renews its board and continues to fight for basic rights of Great Apes
Due to the need to strengthen the work in Europe, where the Great Ape Project is requesting signatures and support to UNESCO to recognize Great Apes as World Living Heritage, the board of directors of the organization, which has been fighting, for 17 years, to achieve the basic rights of great
In order to strengthen the work in Europe, where GAP has requested UNESCO to declare the Great Apes as World Living Heritage, Pedro Pozas Terrados assumes the Presidency of GAP Project International and Paulina Bermúdez, GAP's representative in Mexico, the Vice -presidency. I will continue to integrate the Board,
Sanctuaries or showbiz: what’s the future of zoos?
While most zoos in the US and Europe have moved away from cramped cages the tension between displaying captive animals and a scientific purpose persists. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian It hasn’t been a great month for zoos and aquariums. Seaworld finally bowed to pressure to end its captive
“What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other” – George Elliot Mandy (1975 – 2016) Mandy was one of the smallest and cutest chimpanzees we ever had the pleasure to know. She, like all of our older chimpanzee residents, was born in Africa. After being
Tell UNESCO to recognize great apes as Living World Heritage
Bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas are facing extinction. Please support the Great Ape Project’s call for UNESCO to recognize our closest relatives as a Living World Heritage before it’s too late. Know more and sign the petition here.
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