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&
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Luiz Fernando Leal Padulla, Biologist, Professor, Master of Science, PhD in ethology It was not with surprise that I read the news "Americana Zoo gets new puppy," published earlier this month in Brazil. The feeling is of sadness. After all, a question is repeated and still lacks
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
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