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posted in 01 Nov 2012
The drama of Montse and the drama of Spain
 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,
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posted in 31 Oct 2012
Honoring the memory of Thoto
 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 &
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posted in 24 Oct 2012
Open Letter to the Musician David Guetta
"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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posted in 23 Oct 2012
Representative of GAP in Africa receives death threats
 "GOVERNMENT OF MOZAMBIQUE HUMILIATES A FIGHTER WOMAN" Ana Alonso has dedicated a part of her life to fight for the endangered forests of Mozambique. With her own resources, she set up a company called EUROMOZ MADEIRA AMIGA. She is a Spanish writer and journalist.  Since 1995, she
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posted in 17 Oct 2012
Opportunity to close an unnecessary Zoo
The recent news of the IBAMA intervention at a party being held at the premises of the park Beto Carrero World, in Santa Catarina, south of Brazil, raised the question of the welfare of zoo animals and their real function, both for animals and for men. Read below an article
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posted in 11 Oct 2012
The mutilated ones
 Last Saturday (October 6th) the day was dawning and we were still handing out the first meal at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba when an ugly fight began in front of us, between a couple of chimpanzees: Carol and Alex. The cause of the dispute was a fruit called Pinha
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posted in 10 Oct 2012
Gorilla Idi Amin: Post Mortem exploitation
A life cut in half. 37 years of exploitation. 37 years as a tourist attraction. 37 years of suffering in an enclosure. And the exploitation seems to have no end. The news that the body of the gorilla Idi Amin is being preserved to be exposed in Belo Horizonte shows that sadism and
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posted in 08 Oct 2012
NIH deceive humans and chimpanzees
A report that looks good was conveyed days ago by North American Health Institute (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Government that controls the research with chimpanzees and other animals and fund laboratories and medical centers of torture, to search new drugs against diseases that affect human population. One
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posted in 02 Oct 2012
Tuca
La encontramos en una jaula, en un Circo cerca de S. Paulo, en la región de Atibaia. El piso estaba forrado de papel periodico, que ella usaba como alimento cuando la comida no era suficiente. El Circo aceptó cambiarla por una zebra. Tuca era su nombre y
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posted in 02 Oct 2012
Case Morgan: is the end of water parks near?
The images of the wound of whale Nakai caused outrage on the internet Perhaps the greatest contribution that Morgan gave to the debate established worldwide for his rescue on the Dutch coast, and arbitrary and pernicious attitude of the Government of that country - without listening to the voices of
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posted in 27 Sep 2012
Two orphaned gorillas are rescued in Congo
Two babies gorillas rescued in Congo are receiving care in a national park by its staff, which fear that this can be a result of an increasing in wildlife trafficking due to the situation of rebel groups fighting among themselves and against the army of Congo. The information is from
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posted in 27 Sep 2012
The walls
Journalists and cameramen who visit Sorocaba Sanctuary sometimes inquire after theur first walk in the facilities: why the walls? We also asked ourselves that when we started the Sanctuary. The experience of more than a decade living with chimpanzees now gives us the answer. Is there a high security prison
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posted in 20 Sep 2012
The absurdity of a zoo
In the 1980s, thirty baboons of the species Papio hamadryas, coming from Europe, were donated to a Uruguayan Zoo, located in a residential neighborhood called Villa Dolores, in Montevideo. Since they had no enough space, the baboons were sent to Parque Lecocq, where there were already 500 animals of 33 different species
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posted in 20 Sep 2012
10 Billion dollars!
This is the estimated value calculated by WWF that poachers of wild animals and their parts are going to win this year. Tens and thousands of elephants will succumb, especially in central Africa, where 50% of them died in less than 20 years. Nearly 10 tons of illegal rhino horns reach Asian markets,
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posted in 20 Sep 2012
On the brink of extinction
It was a blue cloudless sky Sunday, with a summer heat in winter at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba. More than 60 days without rain assaulted nature and its components. Ignoring this drama, more than 50 parrots flew from tree to tree, making a deafening noise. The day before, a fire alarm coming
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