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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"Cooper: Kanzi and Panbanisha are "superstars in the world of science"Photo: CNN's Anderson Cooper visits with Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh during his tour of Great Ape Trust and the bonobo language research program. The bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha are going prime-time. The bonobo language research efforts at&
CENTER FOR GREAT APES SANCTUARY Casey and Murray waited for years for this moment. No sanctuary in United States had room to receive more chimpanzees. Casey, 22 years old, and Murray, 18, used to live in small cages in a house in New York since they were babies. Their owners failed in
Coronel Avi Sivan, commander of Israeli troops of Duvdevan unity and security assessor of Cameroon Republic President, Paul Biya, died last November 23th in a helicopter accident occurred between the cities of Douala and Yaoundé. He was together with the local Military Commander. Coronel Avi Sivan was the director
GENETICS IDENTITY Morris Goodman was a molecular anthropologist who was a pioneer in pointing the similarity of genetic identity between chimpanzees and humans, when a research published in 2003 demonstrated that chimpanzees are 99,4% humans. He also did the proposal to the scientific world to come back with the classification Homo troglodytes
Sorocaba Sanctuary has 24 different species of primates
Apart from chimpanzees, GAP Sanctuary of Sorocaba hosts other animals. In a recent intern survey, the list was of 24 different primates living in the sanctuary. Check it out:: 1. Banhado monkey (Allenopithecus nigroviridis) 2. Howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) 3. Howler monkey (Alouatta fusca) 4. Black face spider monkey (Ateles chamek) 5. White forehead spider…
OMEGA ARRIVED! A little bit before 8pm of Tuesday November 9, the airplane from Arabic Emirates landed softly at Guarulhos International Airport. Inside it there was a singular passenger – a male 12-year-old chimpanzee, named Omega – who is his short life, since his parents were killed somewhere in Africa, and
After 48 hours of a trip from Lebanon to Brazil and 18 hours from the liberation at Guarulhos International Airport and the truck trip from São Paulo to Paraná, chimpanzee Onega finally arrived at GAP Sanctuary in São José dos Pinhais – Anami Conservationist Institute around 2
Tuesday, November 09, 2010 BEIRUT: A 12-year-old chimpanzee headed to a sanctuary in Brazil Monday after animal-rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo. Omega, who weighs around 60 kilograms, has never climbed a tree or seen other chimpanzees and has a troubling smoking habit he maintained from
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