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posted in 07 May 2014

Chimps: “Legal Persons” With Basic Rights?

Steven Wise continues to fight to release chimpanzee Tommy from a cage and to transfer him to a Sanctuary in USA, proving he has legal personhood:

posted in 30 Apr 2014

Toti’s mental state is in danger

In a report sent to Argentine Justice, Vania Ynterian, leader of GAP Project International , who is visiting the country, warns that Toti’s mental state is rapidly deteriorating . Vania met Toti two years ago, when she visited the Representative of GAP Project in Argentina, Alejandra Juarez, and her Sanctuary of

posted in 29 Apr 2014

The stone which accuses us

The incident that occurred a few days ago in Belo Horizonte Zoo, where a father and his baby had been injured by a stone thrown by a young chimpanzee, who was angry and furious for the life that takes in that place, continues to show the truth of the zoos,

posted in 24 Apr 2014

Belo Horizonte Zoo flees the responsibility

The scandal caused by a stone thrown at a child who was in her father's lap in front of the chimpanzee enclosure in the zoo of Belo Horizonte is showing the tragic reality of the exposure of large primates to an unprepared public. If you look at the video of

posted in 23 Apr 2014

German zoo will be investigated

A denounce of GAP / PGS of Spain to the European Community about mistreatment practices of Zoo / Circus Park Schwaben, in Germany, was accepted by the Committee on Petitions of the European Union and an investigation into the practices and the situation of the 40 chimpanzees that are kept there in poor

posted in 23 Apr 2014

Visitors are injured in Belo Horizonte Zoo

"THE STONE WAS NOT A JOKE, IT WAS A PROTEST" What a chimpanzee subjected to days , months and years of imprisonment in a tiny space and harassed by a public who verbally assaults and even throws cans and other objects, can do ? A chimpanzee at Belo Horizonte Zoo, in Brazil,

posted in 22 Apr 2014

GAP International supports the fight in Argentina

On April 23, Vania Maria Ynterian, member of GAP Sanctuary of Great Apes in Brazil , who helped found the first sanctuary of Great Apes in the country and the representation of GAP Project on it, arrives in Argentina. One of the missions of Vania, who has 15 years of experience in the

posted in 22 Apr 2014

Melody “finds” the Easter Egg

Save the Chimps Sanctuary occasionally puts in the enclosures / islands that are home to diverse groups of chimpanzees boxes or envelopes with various items such as dried fruit, chocolates, jellies and other treats that chimpanzees like. In this photo, we see the joy of Melody when she "found" an Easter

posted in 16 Apr 2014

Virunga

En este 17 de Abril, el documental Virunga será exhibido en Premiere Mundial en el Festival Tribeca de Películas. Virunga es el Parque que abriga los últimos Gorilas de la Montaña en la República Democrática del Congo, que lucha para que no sea barrido del mapa por

posted in 15 Apr 2014

Demonstrations for Toti in Argentina cover the whole country

Toti has turned into a chimpanzee known throughout Argentina. Due to the mobilization of Alejandra Juarez, representative of GAP Project, and her extensive group of collaborators, on the 11th of April, as the photos and videos show, the case of Toti covered the entire country. In Rio Negro Zoo itself,

posted in 10 Apr 2014

The fight continues for Toti

Alejandra Juarez, GAP representative in Argentina, forwarded this message on the eve of great events to request the shuttle of chimpanzee Toti to a Sanctuary in Brazil. "To all who follow us by Toti: I know we have multiplicity of ideas and beliefs. But I know that deep in our

posted in 10 Apr 2014

Charlie, the last chimpanzee in Lebanon

The fight lasted nine years. On Saturday, April 5, the Lebanon court ordered the confiscation of chimpanzee Charlie from a zoo and his delivery to the NGO Animals Lebanon, which has rescued some other primates and sent them to GAP Sanctuary in Paraná, Brazil. Charlie is 9 years old, was smuggled from

posted in 10 Apr 2014

Trickery comes from a long time ago…

Many wonder about the origins of the Brazilian attitude "take advantage". It is not exclusive to our people, as long as many other people in other countries also practice it. If we try to return to the past, maybe we will face that the origin comes from a few million

posted in 05 Apr 2014

Seaworld drugs its whales

The article of ANDA that we reproduce below proves that whales from SeaWorld , and quite possibly of all water parks, including Loro Parque in Spain, are doped with Valium and other benzodiazepines , to keep them calm, so they do not harm themselves and the keepers. In the explanation of SeaWorld

posted in 02 Apr 2014

Mountain gorillas are in danger

Virunga National Park is one of the last areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo protected of the ambition of timber, oil, mining and expansion of palm oil production. At the park, a group of Mountain Gorillas still survives, surrounded by enemies and deforestation which are only a few miles

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