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posted in 23 Jun 2010

Gorilla encounter (with video)

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

posted in 23 Jun 2010

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

posted in 23 Jun 2010

Baby chimpanzee is rescued in diamond mine

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

posted in 23 Jun 2010

Polar bear Knut

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

posted in 22 Jun 2010

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

posted in 18 Jun 2010

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

posted in 17 Jun 2010

One more shame to the World Cup country

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

posted in 09 Jun 2010

Nuts cracking (with video)

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

posted in 09 Jun 2010

Carole Noon’s dream: a mobile clinic

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

posted in 08 Jun 2010

Kanzi’s baby was born!

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&

posted in 04 Jun 2010

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

posted in 02 Jun 2010

Cetaceans’ Rights Declaration is approved

HELSINKI MEETING In the meeting occurred a few days ago at Helsinki, with the most important expert in cetaceans, lawyers and philosophers – including Paola Cavalieri, from GAP Project Spain – the participants came to the conclusion that it must be produced a declaration to support the rights of the

posted in 01 Jun 2010

In the country of World Cup there are slaves yet (with video)

Nelson Mandela was arrested when he was 44 years old and got out of jail with 71. At the prison cell of Robben Island, where he hardly could spread out, he “lived” for 19 years. He was the commandant and symbol of a fight of the black people against the Apartheid,

posted in 28 May 2010

Survey shows that Jimmy must go to Sanctuary

A survey applied by newspaper Extra (local newspaper of Rio de Janeiro) due to the repercussion of zoo chimpanzee Jimmy’s case shows that the best place for the animal is Great Primates Sanctuary of Sorocaba, affiliated to GAP Project. Almost 72% of the people interviewed affirmed that Jimmy must

posted in 26 May 2010

GAP Spain launches Project Free Cetaceans

The denounce made a few days ago by GAP Spain about Loro Park, at Canary Islands – which submits orca whales, dolphins and marine lions to abuse treatment, forcing them to do acrobatics in exchange for food/fish, and keeps them in small water tanks, when in the wild these

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