GRASP highlights rescue of animals from Brazilian zoo
GRASP – Great Apes Survival Partnership, an alliance of national governments, conservation organizations, wildlife treaties and UN agencies, led by UNEP and UNESCO, which aims to lift the threat of imiment or medium term extinction faced by the four non human great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, bononos and orangotanis) highlighted on its
Chimps in Sierra Leon Need Help in the Wake of Ebola Outbreak
When the outbreak first began there was much discussion about how the virus can be fostered in animals and transferred to humans through the consumption of bushmeat. But what about the animals who have come into contact with the disease through their human caretakers – or even the animals that have
Days ago, a group of young activists who fight for animal rights raided a breeding centre of chinchillas, near São Paulo, and freed a group of them, from the thousands of those who are there to be slaughtered and have their skin cut off for coats to be used
Monti is perhaps the only chimpanzee prisoner isolated in the same enclosure that survived after 45 years. He is at the Zoo of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, which is about to be closed. i At the request of several organizations, including GAP Project in Argentina, Judge Dario Alarcon is considering his
Monti is perhaps the only chimpanzee prisoner isolated in the same enclosure that survived after 45 years. He is at the Zoo of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, which is about to be closed. i At the request of several organizations, including GAP Project in Argentina, Judge Dario Alarcon is considering his
Documentary shows the island where chimpanzees who survived lab tests live
They have been used as laboratory guinea pigs, but resisted the diseases and two civil wars The documentary "The Island of the Apes" is the result of a production that went to Liberia to show a region occupied by chimpanzees only. The online magazine Motherboard team visited the country to
Rescue completed: all animals are fine and in their enclosures
Check some photos of the animals rescued from a zoo in the northeast of Brazil, who are already in the Sanctuary of the Great Apes and Felines of Sorocaba, in their enclosures. The photos show the truck with the shipping boxes and the chimpanzees Jamaica, Maria das Dores and Martin,
Rescue underway: three chimpanzees and two lionesses from a zoo to GAP Sanctuary
After a few weeks of preparation, the largest single rescue that Great Apes and Feline Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project, ever made got started today, October 21st. Three chimpanzees, one male and two females, two lionesses are on track to Sorocaba, after being packed in shipping boxes. The
NGO NEAVS, which a few years ago launched the Project R & R to free chimpanzees of medical torture in North American laboratories, is celebrating this week "The Primate Liberation Week". Project R & R, in conjunction with other organizations, including GAP Project, has achieved that NIH - National Health
As the African forests disappear at an unprecedented speed, the communities of free-living chimpanzees are more in touch with human communities. In western Uganda, in Hoima and Bunyoro regions, forests are disappearing at a rate of 8,367 hectares per year. In 15 years there will be no more forests at Ugandan territory,
By primatologist José María Bermúdez de Castro - Scientific Advisor to the Gran Simio Project (GAP/PGS Spain) If we ask what culture is, everyone will have difficulties to give a precise definition. Human culture includes various aspects, and it is very difficult to summarize and synthesize their
A new study reveals that zoos are not educational for children
HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS Zoos try to hide the cruelty of captivity behind a mask of “education for conservation". But a new study shows that learning is not usually the result. The information is from NGO PETA Latino. British sociologists gathered data from children between 7 and 15 years old, before
Fifteen years ago, when I entered the world of non-human primates, I began to criticize the zoos, which until that time I had in high esteem. Private persons, circuses and commercial breeders used to make partnerships with public, the majority, and private zoos in Brazil. These partnerships led to delivery
By Fernando Reinach, Biologist (O Estado de SP newspaper) In Aldeia, countryside of Pernambuco state, in Brazil, British and Austrian scientists demonstrated for the first time that monkeys can be educated through television. I suppose you know how to peel a tangerine, but you remember how you learned? Most likely
The Nobel Prize in Medicine, Sydney Brenner, speaking on the 1st Forum of Tomorrow Medicine, held last weekend at Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, dismissed the need to use animal models to study human diseases. An article of Valor newspaper highlighted: "According to Brenner, it will need to
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