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
Despite international bans on hunting chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos, the illegal trade in these endangered primates continues with devastating effect in Africa. Every day, the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance – PASA works to save the lives and the future of gorillas and chimpanzees, bonobos, drills and more, in 12 countries
THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE’S MIND We are alone: Sofia, Samantha, Jimmy and I. Sofia runs from one side to the other, jumps on the fence, teases Jimmy and when he tries to get her, she runs away. Jimmy follows her and we are already for one hour in
USA: Physicians urge for the end of chimpanzee experiments
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), from United States, has launched a campaign urging the Congress to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (H. R. 1513/ S.810). The group defends the end of the use of chimpanzees in labs and points the reasons to approve the law proposal:
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Those who think there is no hope for the world due to the lack of compassion and violence committed by humans against animals, the environment and their own brothers can breath in and see that all is not lost. There is still generosity in the heart
It can be considered a dream, or an irrational idea, or a demagogic proposal. But it is a riveting idea and maybe a sign of solution to save a species which is threatened to extinction if something radical is not done in the next two decades. The authors
USA: Environmental organizations ask for the ban of the use of chimpanzees in labs
North-American activists are pressuring the government of the country to intercede in the public research institutes for the ban of the use of chimpanzees in lab tests, according to an article published last week in scientific magazine “Nature”. The organizations sent to the Congress a law proposal to
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