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posted in 07 Apr 2010
April 7: World Health Day
In this Wednesday it is celebrated the World Health Day. GAP Project not only reminds everyone of this day, but also registers, through photos of our brothers chimpanzees, how we should take care of our health. Lucke, always very active, does not give up his climbing on trees, which maintains
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posted in 06 Apr 2010
North-American Government is being prosecuted
“BY ORGANIZATIONS THAT DEFEND THE END OF TESTS WITH ANIMALS” On April 6, a joint of North-American and English organizations (MAP Coalition) that defend the end of the use of cruel methods to test products in animals ordered a judicial demand at federal level against FDA (Federal Drug Administration),
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posted in 31 Mar 2010
“Trip to Twilight”
WHAT PRESIDENT LULA SHOULD READ My answer to President Lula, who called me and every prisoner and former political Cuban prisoners of thieves, made a lot of people who did not know my past to get interested about my opinions of Cuba and the 50 years of Castro system. That unhappy
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posted in 31 Mar 2010
Five tigers die in British zoo
SCANDAL AT UNITED KINGDOM Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, in Bristol, United Kingdom, was unregistered from BIAZA – Great Britain Zoos and Aquariums Society due to a scandal of an agreement with a circus to reproduce tigers. NGO CAPS, in a memorable investigative work, turned known for the public
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posted in 31 Mar 2010
Death in the cradle
150 thousand Piton snakes infect Florida On July 2009, an Asian Piton snake that was kept as a pet in Charles Darnell’s house escaped from its cage, went to his daughter room, two-year-old Hare, and suffocated her to death. Since 1980, these same snakes killed 12 children who kept them at home
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posted in 30 Mar 2010
Great Britain: 94% of the population do not agree with animals in circuses
The Government of Great Britain has informed that a research done with the population about the prohibition of wild animals in circuses showed that 94% of the people interviewed do not agree with it. The information was promoted by CAPS - The Captive Animal’s Protection Society last March 26. This
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posted in 25 Mar 2010
Gorillas’ escapes in North-American zoos
OPEN DEBATE The reason of gorilla Tufani’s (19 years old and more than 80kg) from Dallas zoo last February raised a debate about the need of keeping gorillas imprisoned in zoos for human entertainment and about the security provided by good structured zoos, like the North-American ones, which is
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posted in 24 Mar 2010
Bazou: 16 years in a small cage
In December a sixteen-year-old chimpanzee was rescued from very dreadful circumstances. He is called Bazou. Bazou spent most of his life in a small cage with a rope around his neck. Bazou was kept by the widow of an important man. Apparently the man had a special relationship with chimpanzees.
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posted in 24 Mar 2010
Cameroon: More than 700 grey parrots are released in the wild
NEW ARRIVALSIn December 2009 the Limbe Wildlife Centre took in 503 African grey parrots. They were confiscated in Douala Airport – ready to be sent out of the country. On the 1st of February another confiscation took place in the airport and this time we received 1050 parrots. These parrots were supposed to
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posted in 17 Mar 2010
Animal Defense League of Canadá supports GAP Declaration
In the bulletim 175/ 2010, Animal Defense League of Canada reinforces its support of Great Primates Protection Declaration (GAP declaration). This NGO, which is very active in Canada, is also affiliated to WSPA.More information: http://animal-defence.ncf.ca/
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posted in 16 Mar 2010
80% of Spanish zoos keep chimpanzees in precarious conditions
GAP PROJECT ALERT A communication of GAP Project Spain published in several news agencies, alerts that 80% of Spanish zoos keep chimpanzees in “bad conditions” and five of them are imprisoned in cages in private houses with no kind of control. The alert informs that the majority of the
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posted in 16 Mar 2010
Carlos, 40 years of insanity
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Carlos was born in Africa more than four decades ago. On 2007 he walked on the grass and entered in his island, which today is called Carlos’ island, where he enjoyed his life for the last three years. Carlos suffered several years of torture and his
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posted in 11 Mar 2010
I am a thief!
To President Lula Do not be afraid. Chimpanzees, great primates and GAP do not have anything to do with that. This is related to my Cuban past. I am a former politic prisoner, who, according to our President, can be compared to the thieves that crowd the jails of S&
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posted in 10 Mar 2010
Mathew Hiasl Pan struggles for his personhood
EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL On February 2007, in an Austrian Tribunal, it was presented a demand to designate legal custody to chimpanzee Mathew Hiasl Pan, who was in an animal refugee in Vienna and had an amount of money donated for him available. But the money could only be used if
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posted in 10 Mar 2010
Three baby chimpanzees are saved
RESCUE IN DRC On December, PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance) received the first information of the existence of three baby chimpanzees – one male and two females – abandoned in a rescue center at Democratic Republic of Congo. There have been days since they had eaten and drunk water and
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