NGO NEAVS announced that the Governor of the State of Connecticut, Daniel Malloy, has just signed a law that promotes alternative techniques to dissect animals in schools and state universities. NEAVS and ESEC (Coalition for an Ethical Science Education) have managed that 16 states, plus the Federal District of Columbia, reject
Chimpanzee Francis, 50 years-old, she was born in Africa. When she was a baby was caught and taken to North-American medical experiment centers and zoos. She had several of her children stolen, was transfered to a zoo in Bolivia, where she almost died of starvation. She was rescued by GAP Project,
PARANÁ SANCTUARY Bicco is the last chimpanzee who came to Paraná Sanctuary, managed by Anami Institute and affiliated to GAP Project. Bicco never had contact with chimpanzees and the attempt to join him with a group of several females and a young male did not work when he
The industrial production of footwear to supply humans started less than 100 years ago. Currently, millions of humans in remote areas, and not so remote ones, still go barefoot. The first human show goes back a few hundred years ago, before the Christian era. Over millions of years, different Homos who
In its more than 15 meters high, it dominated a good part of the Sanctuary. By its structure passed hawks, vultures, toucans, parrots, owls and dozens of other bird species. We met 18 years ago when we entered the main gate he dominated in accessing a site of three acres, which began
According to a statement of Project R & R, which has been struggling, as several environmental organizations, including GAP Project, for the official retirement of nearly 1,000 chimpanzees in the hands of the NIH - Institute of Health North American -, the U.S. Government decided that will do it
Angola announces pioneer project of forest protection
The area of Cabinda, north of Angola, has an extensive area of rainforest, which is coupled with the forests of Congo Brazzaville and Democratic Republic of Congo. In this region there is a lot of biodiversity, which is in great danger of disappearing if no joint measures are taken
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
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