On June 12th, the Colombian Senate approved in a plenary session a bill banning the use of animals in circuses of any kind. With a society mobilization and participation of artists and personalities , Colombia joins Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay as a country that has adopted national legislation prohibiting the exploitation
The photos show Dr. Alan Schwartz (human cardiologist) and his team examining the gorilla JJ, in Miami zoo, while he was anesthetized to perform an echocardiogram.JJ is a silver back gorilla, 33-year-old, who has problems of high blood pressure and is taking medication because of it for a
North American Government changes classification of chimpanzees
Fisheries and Wildlife Service of the United States, which is the official body that takes care of biodiversity in the country, published an article on June 10 proposing to change the classification of chimpanzees to "endangered species." This is as a response to a request from three years
Schwaben Park Zoo is located 45 km northeast of the German city of Stuttgart. There, 44 chimpanzees are abused and tortured in up to three daily presentations of a circus show. For 10 months, German NGO Animal Equality investigated this Circus / Zoo that belongs to Hudelmaier family, who founded it in 1972 and
If this question is put to a variety of people, we will be surprised by the variety of answers. Those who do not accept - by prejudices - that chimps are almost human, will answer "no." An episode occurred in Sorocaba Sanctuary a few days ago that answers
It had been over a year since we last visited the Sanctuary of the Great Apes of Paraná, maintained by Anami Institute and affiliated to GAP Project. We took the holiday of May 30th to make this visit. Those young chimpanzees, raised there since they were babies, have grown
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Tanya was close to 50 years old, but we will never know her true age. Torture centers where she lived did not like to give information about their prisoners. She spent two thirds of her life in two centers of medical experiments: the Primate Research Center
PETA: The End of Wild Animals in Film & TV Is Coming
PETA’s new public service announcement (PSA) is narrated by Academy Award–winning actor Adrien Brody and was created by top ad agency BBDO and award-winning computer-generated imagery production company The Mill. This thought-provoking new spot illustrates the tragic lives of animal “actors” and asks viewers
News submitted recently by various organizations that care for and watch over populations of orangutans in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, in Indonesia, reported that a great number of individuals are being found starving and face serious lack of space to refugee themselves in the jungle.
Sanctuary Lola ya Bonobo, in Kinshasa, dedicated to the care of chimpanzees bonobos located in an area in the south of Congo River, still receives babies who were taken from their habitat – who had their parents possibly murdered for the sale of the children. Last March, the Sanctuary received
After over 12 years living together, they were suddenly separated and never seen each other anymore. Male chimpanzee Bongo came to Brazil and the female bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) Chimba went to a zoo in Germany. However, they were linked by their minds, the memories, joys and the uncertainty of a life
Mário Carmo is named as the representative of GAP Project in Angola and Portugal
From Angola Newspaper on line (May 11th, 2013) Angolan Mário Carmo was named last Tuesday as the representative of GAP Project International in Angola and Portugal, to control, inspect and promote messages of international interest on species preservation and environment conservation. GAP is an international movement that aims to
Claudine André, since 2002, maintains a sanctuary in Kinshasa (DRC), which hosts mainly chimpanzees bonobos, which are found only in that country, south of the Congo River, where they live isolated. Claudine is one of the founders of PASA, She is responsible for having hundreds of chimpanzees rescued from the
He was sitting on a wood board, two meters from the ground, in a cubicle closed with glass and exposed to the public. Other four gorillas, closer to the floor, were together with him. He was the only silver back. An individual with singular characteristics hard to find in the
Bico is the last chimp from Lebanon moved to Brazil, and has just arrived at Paraná Sanctuary. He is very human. He has never been with other chimps and feels like a human. This is what happened in the early life of the chimpanzee Washoe, who was deprived of
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