Saving Peanut: Life of beloved orangutan in hands of team using human treatments
By Audra D.S. Burch (The Miami Herald)The patient is under anesthesia, lying on her side in a surgical room with bright overhead lights. The nurse slips a needle into the vein so the chemicals can attack the nearly undetectable cancerous cells of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Another nurse
The death of Dar flashed old thoughts through my mind. Washoe (his mother) was one of the first cases of chimps that awakened love for me. This was in the 90s, when I bought the book "Next to Kim", which was responsible for the choice I made
Katai is a female orangutan from the zoo of Brasilia. There, living exposed during the day and being collected during the night, she got real panic of being locked in the inner area of the enclosure. And she had reason for that, as long as the basement she used
Chimpanzee Dar, who learned to speak in signs, dies
His mother, the famous Washoe, taught her adopted son Dar to speak the sign language, as well as Loulis and Tatu. This was the group of speakers chimpanzees, who impressed the world and lived in Central Washington University, where they are accompanied by a group of scientists. Washoe
Chimpanzee from Lebanon is already at Brazilian sanctuary
Chimpanzee Bico is the second chimpanzee from Lebanon who is rescued and taken to a Brazilian sanctuary affiliated to GAP Project. The first one was Omega, about two years ago. Both Omega and Bico had been rescued by NGO Animals Lebanon and were taken to Paraná sanctuary, supported by
Spanish Government bans medical experimentation with great apes
Spanish Government has just approved a law that prohibits experimentation with great primates in the country. After 12 years of fight, GAP Project now can see a dream, that sometimes seemed to be impossible, comes true.We congratulate Spanish Government for this decision and all who fought hard during all these
A recent evaluation of PASA - Pan-African Sanctuaries Alliance about the situation of the four sanctuaries that exist in the Democratic Republic of Congo indicates that the Sanctuary Lwiro can be reached anytime by rebel advance. Two days ago, the rebels of M23 Group took the city of Goma,
Chimpanzee Montse, 20 years old, who lived in a human family house in Castellon, Spain, since she was a baby,was transferred to the Zoo Las Guards, in Sevilla, which promptly agreed to receive her and incorporate her into a group of chimpanzees that share a hall of 5,000 square
North-American drama: 612 chimps are between life and death
Ken was born in an Air Force base in the North-American state of New Mexico in 1982. He was taken out of his mother as soon as he was born and 12 hours after his birth he was subjected to his first extraction of blood. During the next three years, he was
Bear Jack lived a large part of his life in a circus and was one of the last to arrive at the sanctuary, along with chimpanzee Bob, with whom he shared the circus wagon.During his first days at the
British laboratories that do toxicology tests on products use monkeys of the gender Macaca and when they get old or sick, or no longer serve their purpose, they are murdered and incinerated. In a breeding farm of these monkeys, the farm Noveprim, pregnant females were murdered. This cruelty is
Electronic party is allowed to happen less than one kilometer away from a zoo in Brazil
After two initial denials, the Brazilian Federal Environmental Agency - Ibama - approved yesterday the third project submitted by the organization of Dream Valley Festival After almost two months and two projects denied, the organizers of Dream Valley Festival managed to convince Ibama that the big party that aims
CHIMPS WITHOUT DESTINATION Twenty years ago, Judith Gil, who loved animals, received a call from a friend who worked at the port of Castellon and had found in the hold of a ship, going from Africa to Ukraine, a four-month old chimpanzee. Judith picked up the female baby chimp,
From a cold dungeon to a place under the sun She found him in a cold dungeon, alone and abandoned, with only one dirty blanket that served as his bed. In the silence of that prison, the terrifying moans of his 264 misfortune companions, savagely tortured in the name of &
"ANIMAL TORTURE IS A DESASTRIOUS CRIME"Mr. David Guetta,We do not know if you have been informed. If not, please find out. Dream Valley Festival, scheduled to take place on November 16 and 17 in a park called Beto Carrero World, in the state of Santa Catarina, southern of
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