By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast We have observed remarkable behaviors among chimpanzees. We know that in nature, chimpanzees use some plants for health treatment (they also often use the same plants as human healers). For example, in Ivory Cost, at Taï
ALERT! Primates’ mistreating and abuse at South Africa
Before the beginning of FIFA World Cup, GAP Project alerted about a serious problem that has been happening in Monkey Town, a private zoo at Cape Town, South Africa: the abuse and mistreating of animals, against them great primates, as chimpanzees. You can read the first denounces here and now,
PASA’s initiative Pan-African Sanctuaries Alliance – PASA – launched the initiative of raising funds in order to give home for more than 130 primates that are waiting for vacancy at African sanctuaries. A donator offered PASA to double the maximum of USD 25 thousand to the value the organization raised
Open debate: Can Veterinarian Medicine treat great primates?
In the majority of Vet Schools in the world, the theme “great primates” is limited to a few hours of study during a semester. If we ask any veterinarian, in any place, if he feels capable of doing any operation in a chimpanzee, the answer is going to
Rent Car Company uses baby chimpanzee in advertisement
In order to produce a 30 second advertisement of a French multinational rent car company – Europcar (which has a fleet of 200 thousand cars and is at 143 countries), a baby chimpanzee, called Suzy, was taken from United States to South Africa, so the commercial could be filmed there, because of the
LOLA YA BONOBO SANCTUARY Vanessa Woods is a researcher from Duke University, United States. She spent the last decade among the bonobos at Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary, unique in the world for these primates. From her experience was born the book “Bonobo Handshake”, edited by Gotham Books. Its
R&R Project and NGO NEAVS made a protest in front of Mclean Hospital, in Washington, where a group of saimiri monkeys will be submitted to radiation in a NASA’s project with a cost of USD 1,75 million, in order to evaluate to consequences of radiation on them.
Seven thousand wild animals are confiscated in Brazil
SAN FRANCISCO OPERATION In a joint operation, Brazilian Federal Police, National Natural Resources Institute (IBAMA) and Interpol, a well structure criminal gang of wild animals poaching was taken apart this Wednesday, June 30, and several people were arrested in cities in Paraná, Santa Catarina e São Paulo states.
Historical Agreement: Circus Portugal agrees not to have animals
Salvador, Brazil: In a Conduct Adjustment Commitment signed between Circus Portugal, Bahia Public Ministry and NGOs Célula Mãe and Terra Verde Viva, the circus made it official the abolition of the use of animals in its shows all over the country The legal proceeding signed
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY In 2001, 21 chimpanzees who survived from the experimentation of North-American Air Force and NASA Space Project were delivered to Save the Chimps sanctuary, in Fort Pierce, Florida. At that time Dr. Carole Noon was starting to build it, to save the lives of those who remained from
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast Drumming is one way to communicate among chimpanzees. For us who follow them, the drumming allows us to locate them in the forest and go near them to spend the whole day. It is done exclusively by
MICHAEL JACKSON: ONE YEAR OF HIS DEATH Patti Ragan wrote from her heart an appeal for North-American media to concentrate on the transcendental in the case of Michael Jackson and the chimpanzee Bubbles. When the chimpanzee was a baby and was not aware of the world around him, he lived
Five years ago, conservationist Damian Aspinall, from Aspinall Foundation, released a gorilla, Kwibi, into the jungles of Gabon. Recently Aspinall returned to Africa to meet a now ten-year-old Kwibi. The encounter was amazing. Kwibi recognized Damian’s call and demonstrated all his love and care for his guardian. Watch
GAP Project Spain supports the restoration of “Yellow House”
The “Yellow House” was the headquarters of Tenerife Anthropoids Station, at Cruz Port, since 1913. At this center the studies on great primates cognitive abilities and intelligence started and it hosted chimpanzees and orangutans. Its first director, Eugen Teuber (1889-1958), a language expert, came to the conclusion that the
Claudine, a 5 year-old female baby chimpanzee, used to live in the diamond mine at Gem Diamon company camp, at River Mambere bank, south west of Central African Republic (CAR), since 2008. The company found her after her mother had been killed by hunters that sell primates meat. Claudine arrived at Jane
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