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posted in 09 Feb 2011
PASA 2011: Management Workshop in Europe
PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance promotes every year a Work Meeting about sanctuaries’ management, where the participants discuss subjects such as illegal trade, crisis response, reintroduction, strategic partnerships, volunteer coordination, and long-term planning. These workshops are usually held in Africa, but every two years the idea is to
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posted in 03 Feb 2011
Featuring Jaybee
Birthdate, birthplace, and parents ... Unknown but I’m probably about 37 years oldBefore Save the Chimps rescued me I was … living at The Coulston Foundation, a research lab. But before that, I had spent most of my life alone in a 5’x5’x71 cage suspended off the
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posted in 03 Feb 2011
Gorilla J.J. in the wrong place
This extraordinary being named J.J., according to Miami Zoo, lives with others of his species in a 200 square meters area. He is exhibited to the public for more than eight hours a day, week after week, month after month, for years. We visited him one year ago and at
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posted in 03 Feb 2011
Wild Animals are not pets
BOA KILLS BABY   North-American society wakes up a little more every year about cases of wild animals that live in family houses and end up causing serious accidents, sometimes fatal. United States has a extremely liberal legislation about the ownership of wild animals by population and, due to the
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posted in 03 Feb 2011
Save the Chimps: Renew your membership for 2011
"For many people, a new year means new resolutions. We pledge to go to the gym… eat better… quit smoking… or embark on some other project to better ourselves. Despite our best intentions, our New Year’s resolutions don’t always work out. Whether
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posted in 01 Feb 2011
Ham: 50 years since the first space flight
HE DIED IGNORED BY EVERYONE Ham, most known as number 65 of North-American Air Force, was pulled out of his mother chest at Cameroon Republic some moment in 1959, when he was less than two years old. He was then sent by poachers to Miami Rare Bird Farm. The Air Force bought
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posted in 28 Jan 2011
Kanzi’s new role: Father of Teco
GREAT APE TRUST SANCTUARY Kanzi is the most famous bonobo of the world. His name and his photo have been being featured in a lot of scientific articles and his image has been broadcasted in several TV channels.   Now Kanzi plays his role of father, with his son Teco.
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posted in 27 Jan 2011
For the ban of the entrance of chimp trainer Steve Martin in Spain
GAP SPAIN ASKS FOR AUTHORITIES The TV Channel Antena 3, from Spain, hired a primate and animals trainer, North-American Steve Martin, to participate of a prize show in the country. According to GAP Spain, Steve Martin has a long history of mistreating against the animals he trains, and that he tortures
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posted in 20 Jan 2011
Lions in Bolivia are ready to be taken to US
At least 25 lions that were rescued from circuses in Bolivia wait at the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra for the transfer to a natural reserve at Colorado, United States, informed yesterday newspaper “El Deber”. The operation, called “Lion Ark”, will be concluded as soon
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posted in 20 Jan 2011
China bans circuses with animals and zoos
Victory: China has banned animal circuses and warned its zoos they must stop abusing animals or face closure. Published at Daily Telegraph - January 18, 2011 Live animal shows and circuses are hugely popular in China, and draw around 150 million visitors a year at 700 zoos. However, animal rights campaigners have repeatedly complained
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posted in 19 Jan 2011
Born to be killed
LACK OF RESPECT WITH BIODIVERSITY “There are breeders that put the animals to sleep with ether. I confess I do not have the time because my slaughter reaches 200 in a day. I grab the chinchilla by its tail and put it upside down. Then I get its little neck
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posted in 12 Jan 2011
Ape House
A FASCINATING BOOK This is her forth book.Sara Gruen is Canadian, from Vancouver. One of her last book - - “Water for Elephants” – was an international best seller. This now – “Ape House” – probably will be another world success. With a romance styly,
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posted in 06 Jan 2011
NIH reevaluates transfer of chimpanzees to experimentation
HOPEFUL NEW YEAR According to North-American National Institutes of Health (NIH) statement issued yesterday, the transfer of 186 chimpanzees who are at Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) will be delayed. These chimpanzees are already retired, but would be used again in researches. Due to society pressure all over the world, NIH, which
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posted in 05 Jan 2011
Sanctuary wins award
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Dr. Theodora Capaldo and Dr. Jarrod Bailey, representing NEAVS (New England Antivivisection Society), and Gloria Grow, founder and director of Fauna Foundation visited last November and gave to the directors of Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Florida – the largest chimpanzees’ sanctuary of the world,
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posted in 04 Jan 2011
China closes zoos, parks and circuses
After an inspection in more than 500 zoos, parks and circuses, Chinese Government closed seven facilities, and considers closing other 53 in case they do not fulfill the authorities’ determinations immediately. Denounces received from several locations showed a scenery of huge animal mistreating at the facilities, especially in the zoos. Last
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