OUR FAUNA IS ABANDONED On Friday, March 28, a team of the local Environmental Police went to Sorocaba Sanctuary with a wounded Howler Monkey. He had been rescued by some citizens and taken to a clinic for dogs, which gave first aid but were unable to keep him. Police called the
The campaign for the return of chimpanzee Toti to Cordoba Zoo and a subsequent transference to a GAP sanctuary in Brazil remains intensely . A new feature is being presented to the Federal Court this week given the lack of the Municipality of Cordoba decision, which was triggered to ask the
Victory The last parks of the United States that continued to force orangutans to act on stage - Universal Studios of Hollywood and Orlando - officially retired the primates of all their shows with "animal actors". Since 2009, NGO PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) advocates for the parks
It was a Saturday in March, usually a quieter day at the Sanctuary. However, early in the morning, chimpanzees more attuned to the routine sensed that the day would be different. Chimpanzee Pinho (Felipinho) would be operated. A multidisciplinary team of human and veterinary doctors was prepared for this mission.
See the images of a program called “Gabriel O Ecológico” (in Spanish) about the situation of chimpanzee Charlie and Mendoza zoo, in Argentina, which are in a very bad conservation state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SVBuI-8tNY Dr. Pedro Ynterian President, GAP Project International
GAP Project Spain launched a worldwide warning of the imminent danger of the disappearance of the Cross River gorilla subspecies. It is estimated that there are less than 230 individuals in the wild on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon and that they may no longer exist in Nature. Limbe Sanctuary (
If there is something that really scares chimpanzees is the wind, a component of nature that make them to tremble in fear. When we were in the woods with Guga’s group and the wind began to blow, they came and stood around us or the handlers in order to
At the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, it is one of the paintings by Brent, a 38-year old chimpanzee, resident, until days ago, of Chimp Haven Sanctuary, in Louisiania. Brent arrived at the sanctuary in 2006. For most of his life he lived alone, apparently in a family home.
CAN BE EXTENDED TO BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA This report was prepared Argentine environmentalist Claudio Bertonatti, along with Fidel Baschetto and Carlos Fernandez Balboa in 2014 and presented for consideration of the public and the Argentine authorities by Natural History Foundation "Félix de Azara”. In Brazil, a similar debate is
We do not know what leads to this preference and the reason why some individuals develop it, but the love for tennis shoes is something that some chimpanzees manifest all the time. Guga, Noel, Carlos, Tião, Claudio, Emilio and Luke, they all want to have a shoe with them,
Last month, 18 chimpanzees from the center of medical torture - New Iberia Research Center (NIRC ) - arrived at Chimp Haven Sanctuary. From the 110 who are planned to go to the Sanctuary, 68 already enjoy a life free of torture. Through a work of the Organization NEAVS, it was possible to manage
A female orca can live for 90 years in the ocean. In an aquatic park, half of the orcas die in four years. 91% of the orcas caught in the wild since 1961 have died. Help to ban this massacre and to avoid that the aquatic parks continue to torture and kill animas.
Last weekend, the TV presenter Otávio Mesquita visited us for a story along with a crew of SBT. Octávio knows us for over 10 years. According to him, he was flying in ahelicopter above the Sanctuary , going to his farm, and he discovered us. People told him that “there
In an African Sanctuary – Umutama : a new leader ?
It's been over six months since Mika, the alpha male chimpanzee Ngamba Island Sanctuary community , was inexplicably found dead at a point away from the bedrooms of this island. The struggle for the leadership began shortly after, but no definition happened. Candidates who seemed more proper to assume the function,
Days ago we reported that as industrialization progresses through the countryside of São Paulo State, particularly in the region of Sorocaba, it affects the fauna found in the forests that are gone and the few that remain become a refuge for survival of many species, but are unable to
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