Rwanda President, Paul Kagame, publicly endorsed a petition to establish September 9th as World Great Apes Day, referring to a recent petition submitted by the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Nations General Assembly. President Kagame gave his support during his speech at the annual Kwita Izina gorilla naming
Busted: Guinean wildlife official arrested for trafficking chimpanzees
Ansoumane Doumbouya was arrested August 21, following an undercover investigation by various authorities, including INTERPOL, according to a press release from the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), an initiative of the United Nations. He faces 10 years in prison if he is convicted. “Ansoumane Doumbouya has been identified for years as central
By Robert Gavin | The case for legal "personhood" of chimpanzees in New York will not be heard anytime soon at the state's highest court, but don't expect the battle to end. Advocates for the apes' plight plan to continue making their case in court — and have some top legal scholars
With this appeal, General Attorney of Argentina, Julio Conte-Grand, published an article in the influential newspaper La Nación in which he criticizes the possibility that Judge Dr. Elena Amanda Liberatori recognizes Sandra, female orangutan who lives alone in Buenos Aires Zoo, with the basic rights of a non-human being
His body lying on the floor, eyes staring at the ceiling, his mouth half open, his lips and oral mucosa in bluish color. Lack of oxygen in the final minutes that sparked his life was evident. It was still early in the morning when I put his first meal, but
UN supports transfer of orangutans and chimpanzee to GAP Sanctuary in Brazil
In letters sent to Argentina and Mexico, GRASP Project (Great Apes Survival Partnership), from the United Nations, coordinated by Doug Cress, supports the transfer of orangutans Sandra and Toto, who live respectively in the Buenos Aires Zoo and the Chapultepec Zoo (Mexico City), and Cecilia chimp, who lives in Mendoza
The destructive lie of American zoos: How we’ve blinded ourselves to the truths of the natural world
A trip to the end of the earth revealed to me profound new insights about our relationships with animals by RANDY MALAMUD Stepping onto the remote Martillo Island in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego, my first impression was that the penguins I had come to visit seemed elated not to
In his pilgrimage by North American courts, some already call him "Mister Habeas Corpus". This 64-year-old lawyer, professor at Harvard University, writer and also a chemist, is an confess optimist and considers that it is near to a US Judge authorize an Habeas Corpus filed by him to rescue a
UN warns: orangutans of Borneo face severe threats of extinction
GRASP - Great Apes Survival Partnership - is a UN program backed by more than 100 countries, NGOs, research institutes, UN agencies and private companies as they struggle to save the species of great apes still exist in the wild on the Planet. In addition to the Mountain and Cross river
GAP Project in Chile, directed by Dr. Elba Muñoz, launched a public campaign for the release of Sandai, male orangutan who came from France and lives alone in a private zoo in Santiago, capital of Chile. At the same time we ask everyone to spread this campaign "Free Sandai",
GAP Project Mexico asks orangutan Toto, from Chapultepec Zoo, to live in a Sanctuary
A web petition asks Toto, the orangutan who was left alone after the death of his brother Jambi, at Chapultepec Zoo, in Mexico, to be transferred to GAP Sanctuary in Brazil. Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/2983431/u/11654264?utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email&utm_
Stony Brook University, in New York, agreed to release Leo and Hercules, the two chimpanzees who were under the court ruling at the Supreme Court of New York, with the possibility of being granted with a Habeas Corpus. The University has been very pressured by animal rights organizations and by
She was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, in the early 1970s. In 1975, she was captured and her parents were killed in a possibly mad capture program of baby chimpanzees in Africa to send them to North America, for projects of medical experiments. The destination was the Holloman Air Force
Paulina’s emotion: we do not want greater or cleaner cages, we want them empty
Paulina Bermudez is the director of GAP Project in Mexico. The news that Chapultepec Zoo gave on July 24 th , announcing the death of orangutan Jambi, was already predicted by her. She met him when she worked at the zoo, as well as his brother Toto. Since this time she has
Chapultepec Zoo, in Mexico City, announced on July 23rd , in a statement, the death of orangutan Jambi, who, along with his brother Toto, lived for more than 24 years in the zoo. Recently it has been denied their transfer to the Sanctuary of the Great Apes of Sorocaba, affiliated with the
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