October 24th is the date set by the authorities euphemistically considered to be the ones who protect the American Fauna to begin the hunt for wild black bears in Florida. In two days, 320 must be annihilated, with rifle shots, for more than 1,900 hunters registered for that official massacre. The protests
Sandra, a 30-year-old female orangutan, born in Germany, is in limbo at the Buenos Aires Zoo. The newspaper La Nácion, from Argentina, today published an article summarizing her case and mentions the possibility of she be transferred to the Great Primates Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated with GAP Project, in
5 Things We Need to Stop Telling Ourselves About Zoos
We hear a lot of things to justify keeping animals in captivity. But are these justifications based on fact, or are they simply what zoos would have us believe? Here are five things we hear about zoos, and why we should think twice about them. Myth 1: Zoos exist for conservation
At Emory University, there is Yerkes Primate Center, which, for more than 50 years, tortures chimpanzees in medical experiments, according to private pharmaceutical interests. Primatologist Frans de Waal, who enriched and made himself known in the scientific world with his books on chimpanzees and bonobos, with fanciful unproven theories, managed, for
Yesterday, Monday (September, 14), was an atypical day at the Great Primates Sanctuary of Sorocaba. It was 11am and a wake-up call warned us that chimpanzee Caco had escaped. We put on our ongoing emergency system for these cases, warning everyone to protect, until those who had more intimacy with him
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",
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