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
SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT! Chinese organizations and people are promoting protests all over the country as it has never been done before. The purpose is to avoid that a company that extracts, process and sell the bile of black bears kept in captivity continue to increase this criminal operation. The
GORILLA SANCTUARY The communication is not easy with the area chosen, deep into the east jungle of Congo. An ONU Peace Force helicopter took the first four gorillas on April 2010 and other, a seven-month baby, went afterwards. The group of 30 gorillas which will be able to be hosted by sanctuary
CHIMFUNSHI SANCTUARYChimfunshi Sanctuary, in Zambia, is the largest sanctuary of chimpanzees in Africa. The history of the sanctuary and of family Siddle, which founded and manages it, is also linked to the history of hippo baby called Billy (they thought it was a female and put this name wrongly).Billy,
EARLY DEATHA concern is being spread in medical departments of North-American zoos. Gorillas are facing early and suddenly deaths at the zoos, caused by powerful heart attacks.Biology Department of Case Western Reserve University is studying the relation of the deaths, the feeding and the lack of activities of the
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