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&
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
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
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY Arcus Foundation, traditional sponsor of the Fort Pierce sanctuary, in Florida – the biggest of the world, with more than 300 chimpanzees – made an offer to donate USD 750 thousand if they managed to get donations from other sources in the same value. The sanctuary had already
GAP Project in Europe asks for all the aquatic parks to be closed
In a communication by GAP Project Europe, it has been asked to European authorities to close the two aquatic parks of the continent: one in France, Merineland, Antibes, with four whales, and other in Spain, at Loro Parque de Tenerife, which also has four whales. The communication, signed by GAP
GREAT APE TRUST OF IOWA SANCTUARY At Great Ape Trust of Iowa Sanctuary there is a group of six bonobos and six orangutans. The sanctuary has being developed techniques with the bonobos of talking with human language. According a work published by scientists Janni Pedersen, PhD of Iowa State University,
POPULATION AGREES A TV channel of Fort Pierce did a research with the city population and 100% of the people who were interviewed asked for the end of the presentations in Aquatic Parks that use whales, dolphins and other marine mammals. The population considers that keeping those extraordinary beings in
Jimmy’s Habeas Corpus at Europe Press (in Spanish)
Gran Simio recurrirá al Supremo si se deniega el hábeas corpus para liberar al chimpancé Jimy en Brasilhttp://www.europapress.es/epsocial/ong-y-asociaciones/noticia-gran-simio-recurrira-supremo-si-deniega-habeas-corpus-liberar-chimpance-jimy-brasil-20100227120024.html?bo=tb_chRelated news:New Habeas Corpus in favor of Jimmy is ordered in Rio de Janeiro statehttps://www.projetogap.org.
DEATH AT SEAWORLD “I told them this would happen. Happy animals do not kill their trainers”. This declaration was made by Russ Rector, a dolphin trainer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who converted in a defender of these marine animals. He alerted in a letter Seaworld, in Orlando,
HABEAS CORPUS FOR JIMMY In a press communication of GAP Project Spain promoted today, it was published a report of the situation that resulted in the order of Habeas Corpus signed by Dr. Heron Santana and other lawyers for chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives isolated in a cage in a private
CHIMPANZEE ATTACK NGO PETA, through its exotic animal’s director, Dr. Elizabeth Goldentyer, sent an urgent letter to the division of animal care of North-American Agriculture Department asking for a fake sanctuary – Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, in Palm Harbor, Florida – to be closed. A few days ago a
Stories and victories of GAP Project International’s president
Published at ANDA (National Agency of Animal Rights) websiteMicrobiologist and businessman Pedro A. Ynterian could not imagine how much his life would change after buying Guga, a three-month-old baby chimpanzee, in 1999. His idea was to raise him in the apartment he lived in São Paulo, but after a
Zoonit does not have a registry approved by Ibama. How can it defend it has the right to keep animals if it does not accomplish what is defined by the national legislation for zoos? What’s the point of having environmental laws if they are not respected and a
A keeper of the fake sanctuary Suncoast Primate, near Tampa, in Florida (USA), was attacked a few days agora by a ten-year old chimpanzee when she was cleaning his cage. This sanctuary, which allows public visitation – in the reality, it is a zoo -, uses volunteering keepers, who do
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast The Mountain Niénokoué is a 396-meter-massive granite that surrounds the TaiForest in the South-East. This mountain has a panoramic vision of the primary forest inhabited by a large community of chimpanzees and also offers
Español 
Português 
