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
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
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
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,
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
Police authorities of Guinea, in collaboration with the organization Galf (Guinea Application of the Wildlife Act, arrested several Chinese men, who had in their possession three baby chimpanzees that were to be smuggled from that African country to China. The chimpanzees will be delivered to CCC (Centre de Conservation
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Africa’s chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and monkeys are rapidly disappearing. They are sold as bushmeat, and their babies are illegally sold as pets. PASA's 22 sanctuaries educate 1000s of children & families every year about the value of primates and forests. We empower local residents with training and resources, and
Rodrigo is a deaf-mute boy from Rio, student of the eighth grade. One day he was visiting the zoo of Rio de Janeiro, reluctantly, since he hates seeing animals as prisoners in cages; but it was a task of Sciences. With this amazing dialogue, this simple 61-page book begins,
A Working Group of NIH (North American National Health Institute) that is discussing the ending of the use of chimpanzees in medical research in the country will meet on September 5th. There are still 937 chimpanzees in U.S. laboratories, 10 to 20% of them are still being absurdly tortured in invasive procedures
Despite the intelligence of chimpanzees already be a proven fact for GAP project, due to the experience we have with the residents of the affiliated sanctuaries, it is always great to strengthen the dissemination of scientific research proving this intelligence and how much they are human. Every week we
SOROCABA SANCTUARY Sabrina is a suffered lioness. She lived in a small cage of a circus, along with her two brothers. Since her birth she practically just met this hell of home. There, she could not move and when she grew up and became an adult, she began to develop
Jacques Cousteaus son joins the movement to free Morgan
GAP Project Spain remains steadfast in the struggle for free Morgan in the Atlantic Ocean, along with a coalition of organizations fighting for the same purpose. And a new enhancement has been added to this fight. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of legendary Commander Cousteau, reinforce the movement to free the whale,
The Center for Great Apes gives sanctuary to homeless celebrity primates (from Florida Weekly) BY ELLA NAYORenayor@floridaweekly.comC’MON TELL THE TRUTH. DID you laugh or chuckle even a bit at the image of the well- dressed chimpanzees monkeying around during the CareerBuilder ad on the Super
INTERNATIONAL DENNOUNCE In the province of Camaguey, Cuba, there is a female chimpanzee in a small zoo who is, approximately, 30 years old; she is lonely, in a concrete and iron cage, which is the ultimate expression of abandonment and despair of an intelligent being who should never live that way.
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