Some people say that magical things happen in Christmas time. After four months of unsuccessful attempts, Jimmy left his loneliness behind in Christmas Eve. He accepted the companionship of a young female chimpanzee, who has been was close to him since he arrived at GAP Sanctuary of Sorocaba in July.
U.S. will not finance new research involving chimps
By JAMES GORMAN, NY Times, December 16, 2011 The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such research. Those guidelines require that the research be necessary for human health, and that
Medical specialists conclude that chimpanzees are not necessary in research
NEAVS, New England, USA: The National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) released on December 15th results of their nine-month long study, called for by the NIH, to investigate the current and future need for chimpanzees in research. The IOM concluded that ‘…most current biomedical research
Today, the last 10 chimpanzees from former Coulston Foundation, in New Mexico, will arrive at Save the Chimps Sanctuary, to live a long life with no medical exploitaton. CNN covered the entire trip of the 300 chimpanzees and will feature the story today.More information: Article on Alamogordo Daily News about the
Former Coulston Foundation can be considered to be the worst one in terms of a chimpanzee torture center marked by abuse, violence and lack of moral and ethics in United States. The doors of this place are being definitely closed this December. The final 10 chimpanzees living at Save the Chimps
Ringling Slapped With Largest Penalty in Circus History
Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, must now pay the largest settlement of its kind in U.S. history?$270,000?for violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) dating back to 2007. PETA has been after the USDA all this time to take action against
Founded in 1895, NEAVS, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, one of the most respected national organizations working on behalf of animals in labs, today announced the launch of their new interactive website that delivers the scientific facts and humane ethics to end animal use in research, testing and education. Dr. Theodora
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/science/chimps-days-in-research-may-be-near-an-end.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=james%20gorman&st=cseBy James GormanNEW IBERIA, La. — In a dome-shaped outdoor cage, a dozen chimpanzees are hooting. The hair on their shoulders sticks straight up. “That’s piloerection,” a sign of emotional
Benefits Eugene Schiff, director of Hepatic Diseases Research Center of Florida University, one of the institutions that use data of invasive research with chimpanzees, disagrees. According to him, the ethical dilemma is not only of biologists, but of everyone who had already used and benefit of drugs tested in chimpanzees. &
The freedom of our primates’ brothers is near By Rafael Garcia and Reinaldo José Lopes (published at Folha de São Paulo newspaper on November 6th 2011) The impression we have when we enter in the laboratories of Bioqual, clinical Research Company in Rockville, Maryland, USA, is
It was not a war, or a climate tragedy. Is was simply the result of a predatory action of Homo sapiens against another Homo, the troglodytes – originally classified this way by the father of scientific terminology. In the last 50 years, a million chimpanzees died too early all over
It is necessary a tragedy like this to happen to make human society to reflect and react. And conclude that wild animals belong to their habitat, and must not be kept in zoos or family houses.(CNN) -- The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday it does not
PASA 2011 Veterinary Workshop will be held in Uganda
The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) will continue to stress the balance between conservation medicine and captive veterinary care at the PASA 2011 Veterinary Workshop, which will be staged November 14-18 in Uganda. The workshop will convene veterinarians and primate healthcare workers from each of PASA’s 20 member sanctuaries along
Nature’s Miracle Babies – BBC1, Pick of the Day, September 4th“I do not doubt, for a moment, the keepers’ affection for and dedication to the animals in their care. But Miracle Babies – I think not. The babies we saw were the result of extensive
There are more than 5 million wild animals in zoos around the world. Each year, 500 thousand die in their facilities, which are never appropriated to host the species that have the right and the necessity of live for free. Zoos were created in England in the beginning of last century
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