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
The debate carried out in the Supreme Court of New York about the right of two chimpanzees - Hercules and Leo - to live free with their peers in a sanctuary in Florida, instead of being kept in cages for a lifetime in a biomedical experimentation center at Stony Brook
U.S. judge temporarily grants habeas corpus to chimps in step forward for animal rights
by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer (NaturalNews) Two chimpanzees from Long Island New York are about to have their day in court. Legal representatives for the two chimps say the animals have been "unlawfully detained" by Stony Brook University. New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe considers the chimpanzees
GAP Project Spain began has been receiving dramatic appeals of organizations and people of the city of Mendoza, Argentina, for the life of female chimpanzee Cecilia, who lives alone after her companions died - first Charly and then Xuxa, a few months ago - at the city zoo in Argentina.
By GRASP Chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are essential to the visibility and viability of many biosphere reserves across Africa and Asia, according to an infographic released by the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. Great
A few weeks ago, two chimpanzees from Zoo-Safari Sa Coma, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, were killed. After escaping their enclosure and without an efficient chemical restraint plan, the police force killed them, after a two-day chase in the woods nearby the Zoo. Adan and Eve, the names of these
During the debate in the United States about the fate of hundreds of chimps that NIH (US National Health Institute) announced that it was retiring - they are scattered over a dozen medical torture centers - , the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of University of Texas, at Bastrop, launched the idea
A few days ago, North American NGOs ran stories emphasizing the victory that means the fact that the country's official authorities recognized that captive chimps are in the same endangered status that the ones in the wild life, who are, in reality, being extinct. As long as we analyze this
Chimpanzees in Liberia, Used in New York Blood Center Research, Face Uncertain Future
By JAMES GORMAN (New York Times) After about 30 years of using a colony of chimpanzees in Liberia for biomedical research, which ended 10 years ago, the New York Blood Center has now withdrawn all funding for them, prompting animal welfare groups to urge the center to reconsider its decision. For now,
I met her in Bwana Park Zoo, in Rio de Janeiro, which was about to be definitely closed by the Environmental Authority for abuse of its collection of animals. Judy may have been more than 20 years old, constituted a family, with her friend Tata and her partner Peter, and her
We have 55 chimpanzees at GAP Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, in the countryside of São Paulo state. More than 15 individuals are originated from circuses. If we observe them, we will realize the difference between them due to the type of life they have undergone. We have five chimpanzees who
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