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
HOW THE ZOO TRANSFORMED HIM Polar bear Knut became famous in the world in 2007, when his mother abandoned him and he has been raised by a keeper, Thomas Dorflein, at Berlim Zoo. He was cover of magazines all over the world and promoted the zoo, generating good profits for the
How a baby elephant is trained in the biggest circus of the world!
For those who still doubt that the circuses hurt their animals, we show here some pictures taken from the biggest circus of United States and of the world, the Ringling, training a baby elephant.1st pictureRingling trainers use a bullhook and tight ropes to force na elephant’s feet
An example of judicial decision in favor of animals in circuses in Bahia state
The confiscation of the animals of Circus Portugal in Salvador, capital of Bahia state in Brazil, last June 12, was defined in an example of judicial report signed by Judge Ana Conceição Barbuda Sanches Guimarães Ferreira. The document represents a breakthrough in the judicial interpretation about
A few days after we made the denounce of serious mistreating committed against chimpanzees and other primates in a zoo called Monkey Town, at Cape Town, South Africa – see here article and video –, we faced with other shame attitude practiced at the World Cup country. This time, the
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast We can only say that it is extraordinary. Nuts in forest are an important potential food source. But it ends up raising a problem for chimpanzees, because their shells are so hard that their teeth can not overcome
Patty, 17-year-old chimpanzee, was the first patient of Mobile Clinic of Save the Chimps Sanctuary. It started to work a few days ago and it took a year and a half to be built, due to the donation of US 100 thousand of a anonymous donator. This mobile clinic – which
GREAT APE TRUST SANCTUARY Kanzi is the most famous bonobo of the world. His intelligence and self-assurance in the work with language experts at Great Ape Trust Sanctuary, in Iowa, United States, have already been shown a lot in the press. And even resulted in a book – “Kanzi&
2010 International Year of Biodiversity: a fraud (with video)
GAP SPAIN In a long communication published at the website of GAP Spain, prepared by director Pedro Pozas Terrados, the project alerts to the fact that 27 Environment European Ministers had committed to slow down species extinction by 2010 and at the last meeting, the proposal was postponed to 2020, when the destruction
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