Chimpanzees’ Massacre: the last refuges invaded in Africa
The north of Congo Democratic Republic (CDR) has half of the wild chimpanzees of Africa. But this can change completely in a few years more, because the region is being invaded by million of gold and diamond miners, who are also hunters and exterminate adult populations. They keep the baby
Great Primates out of medical experimentation in European Union
VICTORY IN EUROPE After months of discussion, European Parliament approved this week a new rule for the use of animals in scientific experimentation, prohibiting the use of great primates – chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – in the experiments. The other smaller primates can only be used considered a lot
The Huffington Post: Pedro Ynterian Rehabilitates Abused Circus Apes In Brazil (VIDEO)
In this video, Reuters reports on a chimp sanctuary in Brazil, where abused apes from circuses and illegal zoos are getting a second chance at a healthy and happy life. Biologist and activist Pedro Ynterian founded the sanctuary near Sao Paulo to rehabilitate chimps that have spent years in
Great Ape Project (Proyecto Gran Simio) pleads to keep Orangutan ‘Silvestre’ in Spain
Wednesday September 1, 2010 THE GREAT APE PROJECT PUBLICLY APPEALS FOR ‘SILVESTRE’, THE NINE-MONTH-OLD ORANGUTAN NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM FAMILY TIES IN SANTILLANA DEL MAR ZOO IN CANTABRIA TO BE TRANSFERRED TO A ZOO IN THE UNITED KINGDOMThe Great Ape Project criticizes the widespread practice of zoos, which,
Hundreds of chimpanzees have been dying in Africa, and also gorillas and bonobos, captured by traps that human hunters install in their forests, aiming to catch them and other animals. One of the tasks of NGOs and organizations that defend them in the continent is to disarm these traps. But
The Huffington Post: Pedro Ynterian Rehabilitates Abused Circus Apes In Brazil (VIDEO)
In this video, Reuters reports on a chimp sanctuary in Brazil, where abused apes from circuses and illegal zoos are getting a second chance at a healthy and happy life. Biologist and activist Pedro Ynterian founded the sanctuary near Sao Paulo to rehabilitate chimps that have spent years in
Great Ape Project (Proyecto Gran Simio) pleads to keep Orangutan ‘Silvestre’ in Spain
Wednesday September 1, 2010 THE GREAT APE PROJECT PUBLICLY APPEALS FOR ‘SILVESTRE’, THE NINE-MONTH-OLD ORANGUTAN NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM FAMILY TIES IN SANTILLANA DEL MAR ZOO IN CANTABRIA TO BE TRANSFERRED TO A ZOO IN THE UNITED KINGDOMThe Great Ape Project criticizes the widespread practice of zoos, which,
The Huffington Post: Pedro Ynterian Rehabilitates Abused Circus Apes In Brazil (VIDEO)
In this video, Reuters reports on a chimp sanctuary in Brazil, where abused apes from circuses and illegal zoos are getting a second chance at a healthy and happy life. Biologist and activist Pedro Ynterian founded the sanctuary near Sao Paulo to rehabilitate chimps that have spent years in
Great Ape Project (Proyecto Gran Simio) pleads to keep Orangutan ‘Silvestre’ in Spain
Wednesday September 1, 2010 THE GREAT APE PROJECT PUBLICLY APPEALS FOR ‘SILVESTRE’, THE NINE-MONTH-OLD ORANGUTAN NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM FAMILY TIES IN SANTILLANA DEL MAR ZOO IN CANTABRIA TO BE TRANSFERRED TO A ZOO IN THE UNITED KINGDOMThe Great Ape Project criticizes the widespread practice of zoos, which,
In a long article about “Human Cruelty” towards animals, Veja Magazine reports, in this week edition, an interesting subject that we have already been discussing: the signs of intelligence of great primates. The article shows the worst cases of human cruelty, from slaughter of animals for consumption to
Mozambique (Africa): GAP delegate escapes from the country
VIOLENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE On September 1st popular protests exploded in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and in other cities of the country due to the rising in the prices of bread and electricity. Cars were burn, ten people were killed, hundreds were arrested and the public force went to the streets
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MR. BARACK OBAMAWashington, DC - EUAhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/contact Your Excellency Mr. President, A tragedy is about to happen if Your Excellency do not take providences to avoid it: 168 chimpanzees – our African common ancestors – who are at Alamogordo Primate Facility Centre (APF), New Mexico will be transferred
North-American Government transfers again chimpanzees to medical torture labs
WORLD ALERT! North-American Health Institute (NIH) has informed it is going to transfer 168 retired chimpanzees, who are at Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF), on New MexicoState, to Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas, a medical torture center where every kind of cruel and invasive experiment were made in the past with
TIGER ESCAPES Hundreds of visitors were taken by panic las Saturday, August 28, when they were at a zoo in WatsonIsland, near the centre of Miami. A 3-year-old Bengal Tiger, weighting more than 250 kilos, called Mahesh, jumped the 4 meters high fence of his enclosure and walked in the park. Several wounded
Sierra Leone, Africa: Sara was the latest baby to arrive at the sanctuary
TACUGAMA SANCTUARY, SIERRA LEONE Tacugama Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone, is looking for funds urgently, in order to build more enclosures to host chimpanzees that are in its waiting list. With a big effort they have accepted lately Sara, a baby who is six months old today and do not give
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