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
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
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
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,
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
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,
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
Jane Goodall: “Feelings are not a monopoly of human kind”
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY In the end of November, in front of an audience of 340 children and teenagers of 27 different nationalities at the city of Brussels, in Belgian, primatologist Jane Goodall left her message of hope and warning to the world youth: the planet must be preserved and the animals, respected, with
LEBANON SIGNS CITES The rescue of chimpanzee Omega, broadcasted worldwide as long as he was a smoker and worked for years as a “waiter” in a Lebanese restaurant, opened the way to other primates find their destiny of peace and calmness. While Omega is changing his miserable life
How is the life of the chimpanzee who became a painter and is subject of a judicial battle to leave a zoo in Niterói city and go to a sanctuary in São Paulo By Silvia Rogar Just like Picasso, Jimmy had his blue phase. But the
GAP PROJECT TRIBUTE Last December 27 was the 25th anniversary of Dian Fossey murdered, at Virunga Mountains, in Rwanda, committed by hunters of gorillas, animals she used to protect. In 1967 – reminds GAP Project Spain – Dian Fossey created Karisoke Investigation Center, at Rwanda Mountains, and showed to the world the
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY It there is a chimpanzee who is symbol of suffering in medical torture laboratories of United States, maybe Rufus is the one. Primatologist Carole Noon found him in a place she called “dungeon”, alone and abandoned, when she assumed the control of the labs
Article about GAP Project published at Ark and Tent Travel Magazine, an on-line magazine devoted to uniting people and animals through travel.The article can also be read at http://arkandtent.com/taking_care_98.html TAKING CARE Great Ape Protection: An Organization Strives to Save Our Closest Cousins By Jeannine
Habeas Corpus of chimpanzee Jimmy: decision is postponed
The decision about the Habeas Corpus of chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives isolated for years in a Cage at Niterói city zoo (Rio de Janeiro), was previewed to happen last December 16, but was postponed to January because of the members of the Tribunal asked to analyze the process more
THE SMOKING CHIMP Last December 14 the quarantine of chimpanzee Omega, known worldwide for being a smoker, came to an end. He arrived at the Sanctuary managed by Anami Institute, in Paraná – one of the sanctuaries affiliated to GAP Project – one month ago from Lebanon, where he lived
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