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posted in 15 May 2014
The lawyer who wants to free the enslaved animals
Steven Wise filed a Habeas Corpus on behalf of chimpanzees housed in the United States. He said he has to "break down barriers" as it was done centuries ago when slaves were "things" to justice. Chimp Tommy does not know that he can become a leading case on "non-human" animal
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posted in 14 May 2014
Rescue in Leme: Chimpanzee and lions are rescued from zoo and taken to GAP Sanctuary in Brazil
A male chimpanzee and two female lions were transfered, this Tuesday, May 13, from Leme Zoo, countryside of São Paulo state, to GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba. The rescue of the animals was possible due to a report made by Environment Police, which was sent to the Fauna Department of Sã
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posted in 07 May 2014
Environmental Enrichment: A lie!
  We hear this term "environmental enrichment" for over a decade. When we were looking for a place to learn about the management of adult chimpanzees and the construction of suitable enclosures, as long as our experience was with babies chimpanzees, we ended up coming to the Veterinary School of
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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:  
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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posted in 16 Apr 2014
Virunga
Screenshot 2014-04-07 20.45.04 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
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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,
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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
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posted in 10 Apr 2014
Charlie, the last chimpanzee in Lebanon
Charlie Libano 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
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