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posted in 25 Nov 2013
Brazilian vets from GAP do internship in African Sanctuary
Zambia team mini 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
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posted in 14 Nov 2013
New decoration in the first enclosure of adult chimpanzees
recinto novo gilberto-70 - Copia 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.
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posted in 07 Nov 2013
South Africa: massacre of lions
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
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posted in 06 Nov 2013
Victory in São Roque
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 ,
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posted in 05 Nov 2013
De um santuário africano: Kalema ganha o primeiro round
Kisembo & Kalema 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
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posted in 30 Oct 2013
A birthday gift
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
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posted in 21 Oct 2013
Gorillas: objects in the hand of poachers
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
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posted in 21 Oct 2013
Dennounce against German zoo is official
ESPECTACULO 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
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posted in 09 Oct 2013
The mystery remains: Mika is not back…
Mika 2 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
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posted in 09 Oct 2013
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
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posted in 09 Oct 2013
German zoo is dennounced again
Schwaben-Park-mini 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
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posted in 04 Oct 2013
Belo Horizonte Zoo: Cemetery of Gorillas
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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posted in 03 Oct 2013
The happiness of a chimpanzee
Alejandra Juarez is the representative of GAP Project in Argentina. She owns a sanctuary of bugio monkeys at Cordoba hills:  www.proyectocaraya.com.ar  In the zoo of this city, there is a lonely chimpanzee called Toti. During months, with the authorization of the zoo directors, Alejandra has been visiting
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posted in 24 Sep 2013
Envio de gorilas para Zoológico de Belo Horizonte é questionado internacionalmente
Gorila Loro Parque Diante de uma resposta do Zoológico Espanhol Loro Parque - que insiste em enviar um gorila macho, de nome Leon, ao Zoológico de Belo Horizonte, por um pedido especial da Fundação John Aspinal, da Inglaterra, o Projeto GAP Brasil e Proyecto Gran Simio, da Espanha, fizeram responsá
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posted in 20 Sep 2013
The destruction of the family
Pongo Among the most nefarious things that men have done with the animal kingdom, the greatest sin is the destruction of family ties . In circuses, zoos, breeding and pet shop centers, they care little for the emotional bond between mothers, fathers and children of any kind. Perhaps the most dramatic cases
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