First Habeas Corpus in the United States to free chimpanzees
December 3, 2013 will be a historic day in the struggle for the rights of great apes and many other innocent beings exploited and slaughtered by men. Dr. Steven Wise, founder of NGO NHRP (Nonhuman Rights Project) in 2007, along with dozens of other lawyers , filed an application for a habeas corpus in
This sanctuary hosts chimpanzees Deby and Megh, daughters of Peter, Tata and Judy, who live in Sorocaba Sanctuary. When they were rescued from the private zoo Paraíso Perdido, in Fortaleza (northeast of Brazil), which was closed by IBAMA (Brazilian Environmental Institute), the father and the mother still lived there.
The power struggle when males try to establish themselves as alpha of a group of chimpanzees is constant. In the Sanctuary of Ngamba Island, the situation is no different. It seems that, in recent days, Kalema is consolidating his power as dominant. He had to intervene in a disagreement between
Brazilian vets from GAP do internship in African Sanctuary
Three Brazilian veterinary doctors – two from GAP Sanctuary of Paraná and one from Sorocaba - were at the Chimfunshi Sanctuary, in Zambia, for an internship course of treatment of chimpanzees, especially for anesthesia. Carolina, Camila and Milena The course was conducted by specialized veterinarians in
New decoration in the first enclosure of adult chimpanzees
More than 10 years ago, Gilberto, Ditty, Flint, Margarethe, Carolina and Lulu were the first adult chimpanzees received at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba, and this place was their first home. The enclosure have evolved a lot and today are multiples of 1000 square meters, with the most sophisticated indoor and outdoor facilities.
Hundreds of lions are sacrificed in South Africa so that their bones are transformed in fake sex potions, which are exported to Asian countries. Due to the lack of lions - there are less than ten thousand in the wild in Africa -, it has been created an industry of
If anyone had any doubt that the Royal Institute was a front for a center of torture of animals , which offered services to multinational conglomerates that sell cosmetics and tested the toxicity of its components in beagles dogs existing there , after reading the work published by retired professor from Unicamp ,
De um santuário africano: Kalema ganha o primeiro round
A briga para substituir Mika, que desapareceu como macho alfa do Santuário da Ilha Ngamba, parece que foi definida numa briga dias atrás. Kalema e Kisembo tiveram várias; na última Kisembo sofreu uma ferida na testa, que precisou de sutura e tratamento, assim como seu isolamento do
A few hours before October 25 , a Thursday in São Paulo, I received a call around two pm announcing that three chimpanzees of Noel's group had escaped from their enclosure at Sorocaba Sanctuary. That day in São Paulo was terrible due to traffic accidents and there were congestion accumulated
An observer of nature, suche as Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado , spoke very clearly at a TV programme recently: "To have a gorilla at the zoo , you destroy a family ." He continues: " People who are coming to the zoo to see gorilla should make a protest . A family of gorillas
GAP Project Spain (PGS) received the European Parliament's official confirmation of the complaint against Schwaben Park Zoo, in southern Germany, where 44 chimpanzees are subjected to abuse and a group of them is used in circus humiliating acts. The complaint was registered under n ° 1248/2013 and will be examined in the coming
Mika was the alpha male of Ngamba Island Sanctuary. Two weeks ago, he disappeared into the forest after breakfast . It had never happened an absence so long like that . When it counted 10 days of his disappearance , an intensive search was conducted , now with the help of the Wildlife Authority of
12.279 signatures against the transference of gorilla León to a Brazilian zoo
GAP Project Spain (PGS) announced that the petition against the transference of gorilla León to Belo Horizonte zoo, in Brazil, has already reached, in a week, 12.279 signatures. A copy of this petiton has been sent to CITES Comission on Spain and on Canary Islands (where León lives, at
GAP Project Spain are reporting back German Schwaben Park Zoo, located in the woods Welzheimer, 45 minutes northeast of Stuttgart, which abuses of 44 chimpanzees according to a well-documented denunciation of the organization Animal Equality, in Germany. At first , the Zoo , which uses chimpanzees in a circus show, accepted to transfer the
CAMPAIGN TO BAN THE TRANSFERENCE OF GORILLA LEÓN, WHO LIVES WITH HIS FAMILY IN SPAIN - TO BELO HORIZONTE ZOO, IN BRAZIL. Sign this petition developed by GAP Project Spain (PGS). There are already more than 9000 signatures. https://www.change.org/es/peticiones/loro-parque-no-env%C3%ADen-al-gorila-le%C3%B3n-al-zoo-de-belo-horizonte-en-brasil#
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