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posted in 11 Jun 2013
GAP Project denounces German Zoo
 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
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posted in 06 Jun 2013
Do chimps know how to forgive?
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
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posted in 05 Jun 2013
Back to Paradise
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
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posted in 28 May 2013
Tanya never surrendered
 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
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posted in 23 May 2013
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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posted in 16 May 2013
Orangutans to the brink of disappearance
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.
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posted in 15 May 2013
Bonobos babies keep coming
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
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posted in 14 May 2013
Love without boundaries
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
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posted in 14 May 2013
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
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posted in 09 May 2013
Claudine André wins award for bonobos
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
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posted in 06 May 2013
The look of a gorilla
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
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posted in 02 May 2013
Bico cleans his enclosure
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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posted in 30 Apr 2013
The painters chimpanzees
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARYAn exhibition of the paints of several chimpanzees who live at Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Fort Pierce, Florida, will be launched next May 3rd, with an open reception for the public.During May, the exhibition will be opened at Galery 14, in Vero Beach, near the
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posted in 29 Apr 2013
A story that has not ended yet
The auditorium was full. Diplomatic Representations of European countries, such as Holland and Germany, were present. From Africa, representation of Angola and Guinea-Bissau could not be missed. To them were added the Carmo family, friends, journalists and great apes and environment defenders. Galveias Palace, in central Lisbon, became a field
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posted in 16 Apr 2013
Gromek: 40 years without seeing the sky
 SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY "It was a January night, at the beginning of this century, I was working on my computer around 9 pm. Darkness surrounded us. Suddenly I heard someone stomping on the great platform. It was the first time. Who could it be? I opened the door
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