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a colony of chimpanzees in Liberia for biomedical research, which ended 10 years ago, the New York Blood Center has now withdrawn all funding for them, prompting animal welfare groups to urge the center to reconsider its decision.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
What Steven Wise’s talk tells on the rights of chimpanzees
US lawyer Steven Wise, president of the NGO Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP), summed up in just less than 15 minutes the meaning behind the idea that chimpanzees are rather subjects of law and shall be regarded by the courts as people, not as objects. In a talk at TED event held
In the wild certainly not. A few years before bonobos, gorillas and orangutans will also be extinct. They will also have gone from the nature the elephants, lions, tigers, rhinos, hippos and most large terrestrial mammals. The natural habitat of these species has been devastated by human population growth. Consider
GAP Spain demands an end to the trading of chimpanzees among zoos
Great Ape Project Spain (PGS) has demanded an end to the trading of chimpanzees that is "frequently" carried by zoos because they affect the mental health of the great apes involved and has demanded explanations from Bioparc (at the city of Valencia) for having transferred all its chimps to other
Read the full report (in Spanish) of Pedro Pozas's (president of GAP Spain) visit to GAP Mexico. The activities happened from April 20 to April 29. INFORME VISITA MÉXICO GAP INTERNACIONAL
Chimpanzee Adan, who had fled days ago from Zoo-Safari Sa Coma, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, was found dead, possibly drowned, in the woods near the Safari. GAP Project asked the authorities a real investigation about his death, which is considered strange, and an autopsy, to settle the real cause
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