The UK’s Remaining Wild Animals in Circuses Need You!
In spite of being one of the most developed of the world, United Kingdom is a country that still allows circuses with animals. For several years local and international activists fight and promote campaigns for the approval of a Law to ban definitely the use of animals in these kind
SEVERAL DEAD ANIMALSAt this time it happened in Bangkok, Tailand, in a zoo called Talad. With no evacuation plan, when the floods got into the zoo on April 7th the effort of the keepers to save the animals had no result.100 birds, 50 snakes, 5 crocodiles and one deer died in the
PARIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYNext April 28, Executive Director of GAP Spain, Pedro Pozas Terrados, will participate at Paris International University of a series of conferences and debates about the future of the fight for the rights of great primates and the protection of their habitat. The representative of Jane Goodall Institute in
Spain Supreme Court recognizes debate of great apes rights
GAP SPAINGAP Project Spain and other organizations are evolved in the fight for the preservation of a place known by “Yellow House”, at Canarian Islands, where the first noninvasive experiments to know the intelligence and learning abilities of great apes took place.The idea is to preserve the
CENTER FOR GREAT APES SANCTUARY The sanctuary located at Wauchula, Florida, which host orangutans and chimpanzees (the majority coming from entertainment industry and from Hollywood), developed its activities on March dedicated to celebrate the birthdays of the month: Roger (32), Bona (25), Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee (26), Oopsie (37) and Sam (43). The
“He used to be the star of Berlin Zoo”. With this declaration, Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, put an end in one more chapter of the history of zoos as entertainment center for humans – instead of serving biodiversity and becoming conservation and recuperation centers of threatened
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY The activities of Save the Chimps Sanctuary this March have been intense. The truck of the migrations, where the chimpanzees are transported and have, each one, a window to see the world during the trip, travelled hundreds of miles rescuing chimpanzees and taking them to the
FROM FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA MARCH 24, 2011Slowly one by one, eleven chimpanzees who had arrived at Florida after a long a lomg trip from New Mexico (a lot of them getting in touch with the external world for the first time) get out their bedroom and dining hall to the island
TORTURED BEARS Around 10 to 13 thousand bears are still imprisoned in metal cages, with catheters implanted in their gallbladder or with holes in their chests to get out bile to be converted in medicines. Twenty out of 31 Chinese provinces already disapprove this torture against bears and forbid this criminal practice.
PASA IN NUMBERS The creation of African sanctuaries is not long past – less than 20 years – and their numbers increased with the creation of PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance, which coordinates them for a little bit more than 10 years. In 20 sanctuaries affiliated to the alliance, more than one
Jimmy: trial about the Habeas Corpus will take place on April
According to the latest report of Magistrate José Muiños Piñeiro Filho, relater of the Habeas Corpus act to free chimpanzee Jimmy of his unfair and lonely prision at Niterói zoo, the date defined by Rio de Janeiro Justice Tribunal for the trial is
SIGN THE PETITION In China there are farms where bears are put in cages and a tube is implanted in their gallbladder to permanent extraction of bile, which later is processed and converted in medicine. These bears suffer from terrible pain and die in less than five years of infections
Bear and chimpanzee confiscated in Brazilian circus are already at GAP Sanctuary
SOROCABA SANCTUARYLast March 2nd, Brazilian Natural Resources Institute (Ibama, in Portuguese) confiscated from a circus in Minas Gerais state a North-American black bear and a chimpanzee. A person of the neighborhood where the circus was settled made a denunciation to the institute that the animals were being mistreated.After the
PROTEST AND SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN! Virunga National Park, at Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the oldest and better care parks of Africa. It is a refugee of protected species, among them 700 species of birds and 200 of mammals. One of these species is the mountain gorillas, the only
CIRCUSES WITHOUT ANIMALS In an operation coordinated by NGO Animal Defenders International (ADI) last February 16, called Lion Ark, 25 lions that were confiscated by Bolivian Government - which has recently approved a law that prohibits circuses with animals in the country - flew to United States , where a 320 thousand square meters
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