Strategic meeting in New York for chimpanzees of Save the Chimps
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Join members of Save the Chimps' Board of Directors and Leadership Team at our 2011 New York State of the Sanctuary Cocktail Fundraiser on October 6th, when the sanctuary will present the new Strategic Plan of the organization. This plan will serve as a guide over
ORCA COALITON Orca Morgan, a 4-year-old female orca whale, has been found very injured and weak on June 2010, on Wadden Sea, at Nedherlands coast. She was rescued and sent to the local aquarium, where she was exhibited to the public after being recovered. Morgan is ready to be sent back
PASA Sanctuary in South Africa Survives Raging Wildfires
The Vervet Monkey Foundation is relieved that staff and volunteers were able to beat back a wildfire that burnt one enclosure on September 18, 2011. Due to the keen preparation and heroic efforts of the staff, only 3 of the 90 vervet monkeys in the enclosure were lost and 4 were injured in the blaze.…
Captive Chimpanzees Require “Endangered” Status by NEAVS/Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in US LaboratoriesNEAVS, along with other organizations, filed a petition spearheaded by HSUS with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requesting that the agency “uplist” the status
A day with a female wild chimpanzee and her 5-year-old baby
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast We leave our camp to the dense forest of Taï Park very early in the morning to go finding the female chimpanzee and her baby that we have been following for months*. At about 5:30am we arrive
On the 80’s, HIV appeared in the life of humans beings to disturb them and also enrich a lot of big corporations. We know very well the interests behind the cure of AIDS. We suffered with that because our business group was the first one in the world to
Political conflicts resulting in civil wars have a lot of victims. Among them animals. In Ivory Coast and Libya, which live internal wars due to Government power divergences, animals of the zoo end up suffering, due the abandonment of the facilities by the employees. There were days the animals were
By JOHN C. MITANI (professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan), published on NY Times VIEWERS of this summer’s Hollywood blockbuster “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” may be surprised to learn that before our earliest ancestors arrived on the scene roughly seven million
GAP PROJECT SPAIN A communication by GAP Project Spain accuses several zoos of the country for negligence and abandonment of the animals. Specifically, the communication alerts Spanish authorities about the case of Oasis Del Valle Zoo and the ranch of Loro Park, because there is also evidence that some valued
Yes, we can affirm this. In the same way that we explain to everyone who question us: why would not be possible that living beings with a quite similar DNA, a developed brain, human anatomy and body physiology and a blood system suitable with ours one day will be able
The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) threaded political unrest in Southern Sudan to rescue four infant chimpanzees and transfer them to a sanctuary in Uganda. The four orphans were transferred from a makeshift site amidst Southern Sudan’s declaration of independence to the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, which is
Open letter to Aspinall Foundation about the transference of gorillas to a Brazilian zoo
“Why? For what?” The mission of John Aspinall Foundation, from England, is reproduced below: “Our objectives are: To halt the extinction of rare and endangered species in the wild To continue to provide the most natural environment possible for the animals in both parks To re-introduce these
By Roscoe Bartlett , published on New York Times on August 12, 2011* BEFORE I was elected to Congress, I was a physiologist at the Navy’s School of Aviation Medicine. For our successful missions to transport men to the moon and return them safely to Earth, I invented a series of respiratory
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Nuri’s use in the breeding program stopped in 1994, and as far as we know, she spent the next several years in isolation. When Nuri was rescued in 2002, she was living alone in "The Dungeon." Her knees were permanently bent, a condition never
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Marc, Late, Kaleb, Tina, Kayla, and Katina departed for Florida on August 4, 2011 after STC staff spent an anxious 24 hours monitoring Tropical Storm Emily, which was predicted to possibly be hitting Florida at the same time as the chimps’ scheduled arrival. Everyone in the sanctuary
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