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posted in 15 Feb 2013
Animal experimentation: we get to be the backyard of the United States
 Brazilian newspaper “Valor Econômico” published this week an article about a project already approved and underway in the country, with federal and Santa Catarina state Government funding, with the participation and cooperation of multinational pharmaceutical companies, that can convert Brazil into a Giant Center of
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posted in 07 Feb 2013
Dorothy: the unfathomable mysteries of life
 She was born inside four walls and iron bars of a medical torture center. She had no childhood. We see our baby chimpanzees running, jumping and playing for hours, until their bodies do not resist, and we think of her, with whom none of this happened. She has never
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posted in 31 Jan 2013
Dolphins are retired in Italy
Robin, Teide, Betty and Nau are names of dolphins that took an audience of 759 thousand viewers per season to visit the Italian park Palablu Gardaland. They are being retired now of their slave labor for the purpose of human entertainment. The British company Merlin Entertainments, which runs the park, decided,
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posted in 30 Jan 2013
70 million reasons
 NIH (USA National Health Institute) pays to torture centers that host chimpanzees - that belong to the Federal Government - $ 56 per day per primate. In our sanctuary in Sorocaba, which has very best treatment and supply conditions than the torture centers in United States, each primate costs $ 10 per day.
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posted in 24 Jan 2013
The never-ending story of North-American chimpanzees
Despite the pressure of North-American society to end the use of chimpanzees in medical experiments, NIH (National Health Institute of United States) tries to postpone the final decision, to continue with the business it has with various centers of torture, sponsored by the institute, and keep the chimpanzees available to
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posted in 17 Jan 2013
African lions in danger
 Africa is changing rapidly. Egypt and South Africa, which were the centers of higher human concentration, with big capitals, are migrating to tropical Africa. Lagos, the capital of Nigeria will be the largest city in Africa in over a decade, with 15 million inhabitants, and Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic
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posted in 16 Jan 2013
Birth of baby chimpanzee can be shot in real time
 Nina, a nine year old chimpanzee, can have her labor filmed in real time in the coming days by a video camera with night vision, installed on her enclosure. At first,  the staff of the Sanctuary where Nina lives, which belongs to Jane Goodall Institute, in Mpumalanga, thought
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posted in 16 Jan 2013
Thailand legalizes illegal African ivory
Thailand is the only country that allows the sale of the ivory of its elephants. The rest of the world, which has elephants, forbids. Thousands of elephants are killed each year in Africa and the ivory of their tusks is sent to Thailand, where it is legalized, and “becomes&
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posted in 15 Jan 2013
Argentine circus abandoned big cats in Paraguay
The Argentine newspaper Clarin published an article written in Assuncion, Paraguay, about an Argentine circus that was performing in the country and then abandoned  the trucks with nine tigers.Animal defense organizations are trying to give a destiny to the animals before they die. A legal action is also
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posted in 10 Jan 2013
A surprising Christmas
Last December 25th was an unusual day, to say the least, at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba. The employees of the sanctuary requested to be released at 10 am, so they could spend part of the day with their families, in human celebration of Christmas. Generally, we always have a range of
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posted in 10 Jan 2013
Chimpanzees are mentally destroyed in zoos in the world
DEFINITIVE PROOF In June 2011, the scientific journal PLoS ONE published a work of anthropologist Lucy P. Birket and his colleague Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher, of School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK, under the title "How is the Abnormal Behaviours of Captive, Zoo-Living Chimpanzees?" This group of
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posted in 10 Jan 2013
A surprising Christmas
Last December 25th was an unusual day, to say the least, at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba. The employees of the sanctuary requested to be released at 10 am, so they could spend part of the day with their families, in human celebration of Christmas. Generally, we always have a range of
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posted in 02 Jan 2013
Rick, Sam and Rakker
Sam (Simon) and Rakker arrived at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba, almost 10 years ago. When they were babies, en error in the handling at Amsterdam Zoo caused an almost fatal attack of several females of a group that Rakker was introduced in and was not accepted. Sam had better luck and
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posted in 27 Dec 2012
2012: a year not to be forgotten
On Christmas Day, a polar bear called Winner, one of the few in captivity in these latitudes, died in Buenos Aires Zoo due to a mixture of hyperthermia (high temperature) and stress caused by fireworks used by some humans who have no creativity to celebrate any time what they think
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posted in 19 Dec 2012
USA: 113 chimpanzees go to Sanctuary
 VICTORY IN NORTH AMERICA NIH (North American National Health Institute) announced yesterday that 113 chimpanzees kept in the torture center of New Iberia Research Center, in Louisiana, will be transferred to federal sanctuary Chimp Haven, in recognition of all the environmentalists’ clamor around the world, who accuse NIH of not retiring
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