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posted in 29 Dec 2010

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

posted in 28 Dec 2010

Baboon family leaves zoo to a sanctuary

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

posted in 28 Dec 2010

Story of chimpanzee Jimmy

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

posted in 28 Dec 2010

25th anniversary of Dian Fossey’s death

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

posted in 21 Dec 2010

Rufus loses one arm but does not surrender

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

posted in 17 Dec 2010

Taking care: Article at Ark and Tent Magazine

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

posted in 17 Dec 2010

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

posted in 16 Dec 2010

Omega leaves quarantine

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

posted in 15 Dec 2010

Monkeys free from radiation

NASA CHANGED ITS PLANS NGO PETA, celebrities like Paul McCartney, Bob Barker, Alicia Silverstone, members of North-American Congress and even a North-American astronaut pressured NASA – apart from 100 thousand letters, telephone calls and e-mails – and made it change its plans and call off an absurd experiment: to submit dozens

posted in 14 Dec 2010

Chimpanzees recounted by a former hunter

By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast Gnonsio Denis, 79 years old, is Guéré, an ethnic group located in the West of Ivory Coast. He left his village in 1966 to settle in the forest region, specifically at Southwest of the Taï Park

posted in 14 Dec 2010

Portugal: Imprisoned bears are taken to zoo

A few weeks ago we received one denounce from Portugal of three bears that were living for five years in a Cage after being abandoned by a broke circus in the countryside of Portugal. They lived due to the public charity. Last week good news came from Lisbon: the bears

posted in 14 Dec 2010

Jack Sanctuary: the 20th of PASA

Third in Comgo In 2006 vandals entered Lububamshi Zoo, at Katanga Province, in Congo, and put fire at the facilities. In a small enclosure there were two young chimpanzees, who had been recently rescued by a French couple - Franck Chantereau and his wife Roxane. They were initiating a sanctuary

posted in 14 Dec 2010

Carmen won the sun and a daughter, but her heard did not resist

SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Carmen arrived a few months ago at Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Florida. She left behind a terrible history of torture and insanity. She had been caught in Africa when she was still a baby, maybe in 1972, and she was near 40 years old. In 1975 she entered

posted in 08 Dec 2010

From Central African Republic to South Africa

JGI-EDEN SANCTUARY, SOUTH AFRICA Claude is about 8 years old, is a young chimpanzee and was abandoned, together with the zoo he was at a location called Bangui, at Central African Republic since 2008. Claude used to be kept in a small cage and was fed due to donations of people from

posted in 01 Dec 2010

Government of Democratic Republic of Congo return birds to poacher

Last September, Environmental Congolese Authority (ICCN) confiscated 523 grey parrots (the bird that is considered to be the most intelligent one) at the airport. They were ready to be sent to a bird poacher in Singapore, with no official documentation. The birds were sent, in emergency status, to Lwiro Great Primates

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