A decade ago, a member of GAP Project in Cuba was investigating complaints that came to us of raising of chimpanzees for sale for circuses and individuals abroad. In the survey, it was confirmed that Cuba was reproducing chimpanzees and using the Havana zoo as an operation center, and that
A skeleton of a lion is worth $ 10,000 and a rhino’s worths more than gold, which caused the reduction of more than 270 rhinos in the first six months of this year in South Africa. In Miami, Jungle Island, a private zoo - which houses some great apes - is
Chimp seeks zoo visitors help to escape enclosure (VIDEO)
A chimpanzee at a zoo in Wales has been filmed gesturing at the lock on his enclosure in an apparent attempt to get a visitor to release him.The video shows the chimp pointing its finger at a window bolt and mimicking the movement required to open it.In one
Four gorilla families found in monitoring operation in DR Congo
by LuAnne (From Gorilla.CD) We have wonderful news this week from our rebel-held gorilla sector of the park. The rangers were finally able to begin a gorilla monitoring operation to search for our missing gorilla families, and they have found four out of seven, plus discovered a new baby
GAP Project Spain is campaigning worldwide, along with the Dutch Foundation Free Morgan, to secure the release of this whale, named Morgan, in the ocean. She was rescued with injuries on the coast of Holland, was treated and then sent to a water park in Tenerife, Spain, called Loro Parque,
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Fort Pierce, Florida, celebrates, next September 15, 2012, the Members Day, on behalf of the tenth anniversary of the rescue of the 266 chimpanzees who used to be tortured at the former Coulston Foundation, which broke and had its facilities purchased with primates by
His skeleton is exposed as a trophy. It is the only thing left of a pyrrhic victory of a group of human beings, who perhaps should not be elevated to this category as they haves left behind a lot of dead innocents, explored in their tragic lives. The history of
DR Congo: Fighters agree to gorilla survey in Virunga
Fighting groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to allow a search for critically endangered mountain gorillas to go ahead. Six families of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Park have been missing since clashes broke out in the area between government and rebel forces. Rangers were forced to
Judge forbids trainers to swim with whales in Seaworld
Since the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau by whale Tilikum in Seaworld Park, a controversy has been raised about the safety of the work that these aquatic animals trainers have. After the accident, the interaction of the trainers with the whales in the water was banned. But the show as
Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers Traps
by Ker Thanfor National Geographic News Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two youngmountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in theirRwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene. "This is absolutely the first time that we've
The situation for 200 gorillas who still resist in a park in Congo is getting worse By Vilma Gryzinski, for Veja Magazine (July 25, 2012) Since Congo is probably the worst place on earth for humans to live, imagine for a few mountain gorillas that remain in the wild. Totally, there are about 700
By Dr. Pedro Ynterian, President, GAP Project International Forty years ago, U.S. Air Force devised a top secret project called X. The project was assembled at Air Force Base in Lockridge, Florida, in a Research Centre of Strategic Arms. At that time U.S. military wanted to know
Every week there is news from several cities in the world about a zoo being evacuated due to the runaway of great apes or other animals considered to be dangerous. The latest news came from Hannover, an old and traditional zoo, which had a runaway of five chimpanzees. Using
It was a day like any other on October 2010 that was stating at Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project, when dozens of men in uniform and armed with trained dogs forced their entrance through the gates of the sanctuary, in a surprise action with unusual rigor. The
The fact that we had already reported and the hypothesis that environmentalist Heleno Maia had raised has been proved now with the report of the autopsy: the only existing gorilla in a zoo in South America, who was unwisely placed with two young females, having been ill, died in anesthesia,
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