GAP Spain claims for the closure of Guantanamo of the simians
There is an establishment in Spain called "La Granja de Primates of Camarles" in Tarragona. In that place there are hundreds of different species of monkeys, which are maintained and reproduced to fuel biomedical experimentation in Europe. GAP Project Spain has circulated a report among all Members of
STOLEN APES: THE ILLICIT TRADE IN CHIMPANZEES, GORILLAS, BONOBOS AND ORANGOTANS (click here to read) is the first report that analyzes the scale and extent of illegal trade and exposes the sophisticated connections of criminal networks between countries, as well as legislation and efforts to ban these illegal acts. This
GRASP denounces the imminent disappearance of great apes
During the annual meeting of CITES in Bangkok, currently underway in Thailand, the Executive Director of GRASP - UN Programme for the defense of Great Apes, Doug Cress, reported that more than 3,000 great apes are captured each year to supply the lucrative and well armed illegal market of these
Twelve-year old female gorilla Kifta, who came to Brazil to Belo Horizonte zoo with her partner Kimbi in 2011, for them to be the company of male gorilla Idi Amin, died last February 28th of pulmonary edema, according the report of the zoo. John Aspinal Foundation, which has two zoos in
Zoos in Europe insist on practicing the “legal trade” of apes to other zoos in Latin America and elsewhere. Zoos in Portugal interchange chimpanzees with Brazilian zoos, German zoos send orangutans to Brazilian zoos, English zoos sell young gorillas to Brazilian zoos and now the latest information: a
A baby - rhesus monkey - is taken from his mother hours after his birth, placed isolated and subjected to all sorts of terrifying experiences, including being put in front of a giant snake. After a year of experimental fears in his life, the baby is euthanized and his
I was leaving GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba, after over 11 hours of exhaustive work, and passed along the front of Billy’s enclosure. From the window he made me signs and showed me a square pot, different from the others, of a yogurt he enjoyed hours earlier. That was a
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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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