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
We reproduce bellow aerial photos taken on October 28 of Sorocaba Great Primates Sanctuary, with the latest enclosures constructions. Today it is the largest private primates sanctuary of American continent.
Alternative energy program around Taï National Park
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory CoastFrom July to August 2010, Virginia Echavarria and me carried out a pilot project on the production of combustible briquette. This pilot project was sponsored by the Spanish Organization Proyecto Gran Simio and the Natural Foundation and Man. It
JIMMY’S HABEAS CORPUS CASE GAP Project ordered in Brazilian Justice System an Habeas Corpus to free chimpanzee Jimmy from his cage at Zoonit (zoo at Niterói city, in Rio de Janeiro state), where he lives by himself for 12 years. Zoonit opposed his freedom and transference
North-American scientific magazine “PNAS” has published a work by Spanish anthropologist Juan-Luis Arsuaga and his team, from Madrid Complutense University, that describes the older primitive human primate discovered, with 45 years old. A half-million year specimen of Homo heidelbergensis has been presented as the oldest representative of that
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY He was about to turn 50. For 35 years he lived in a cage of a laboratory of Coulston Foundation Torture Center. Several diseases were inoculated in him, a lot of blood collection was made, just like biopsies and other invasive procedure, not to mention his use for
ZOO AT SOUTH AFRICA When chimpanzees in circuses were a success, one of the atrocities committed by circuses’ owners against the primates was to addicted them in cigarettes. The old Garcia Circus, in Brazil, had several smoking chimpanzees and, like a competition, other Brazilian circuses did the same. Junior,
NOT ONLY IN BRAZIL Frequently we read news about death of animals in our zoos. But this sad privilege is not only of Brazil. At other countries this also happens, like a recent event at New Delhi Zoo, in India, where 32 black antelopes (Antílope cervicapra), a rare and
YOUNGSTERS LEAVE THEIR MESSAGE The elections in Brazil on October 3rd made it very clear. From now on no candidate will be elected if he or she does not give the real attention to environment, nature, to animal respect and to the preservation of our resources. The Green
Crime in USA: old chimpanzees come back to torture
Flo, a female chimpanzee, turned 53 years old yesterday. She spent all her life in medical torture lab cages in United States. Several viruses were inoculated on her: hepatitis C, HIV, among others. She survived, but her fight was almost in vain. In spite of being an institution that North- American
BEARS, PANDAS, CHIMPANZEES... China is known for its disrespect for animals. It is shocking in a globalized world, where information is spread quickly. The case of the Panda bear borrowed to a Japanese zoo (like many other borrowed and donated to zoo, as if they were objects, in order to
SPEAK OUT AGAINST! AVOID IT TO HAPPEN! Bioculture is a company located at Puerto Rico (North-American state) that reproduces monkeys and other animals for use in medical experimentation. In its most recent project it is planned to catch in the jungles of Mauricio Island, near Madagascar (African east coast), 4 thousand
In the North of Democratic Republic of Congo and in south of African-Centre Republic (Africa’s heart) there is, maybe, the last fight that one species of chimpanzee - Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii – sustains for survival in their wild refuge areas. In the region known as Bili-Uér&
Congo Democratic Republic: 523 parrots are confiscated
An illegal shipment of 523 endangered African Grey parrots was confiscated September 18 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and taken to the Lwiro sanctuary, placing an incredible strain on staff and resources. Lwiro is already home to over 100 orphaned chimpanzees and monkeys, but has no provision for birds. The parrots were
GAP Spain asks for several aquatic parks to be closed
In the campaign of free great apes and cetaceans, GAP Project Spain sent a denounce to Nature Protection Agency and to ‘Seprona’ (Civil Guard Nature Protection Service, in Spanish) of the country, listing several irregularities of Spanish aquatic parks. Director of GAP Spain, Pedro Pozas Terrados, declared in
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