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posted in 01 Mar 2010
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.
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posted in 25 Feb 2010
Playing with danger
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,
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posted in 25 Feb 2010
Spanish personalities support Habeas Corpus
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
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posted in 24 Feb 2010
PETA asks fake sanctuary to be closed
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
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posted in 23 Feb 2010
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
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posted in 23 Feb 2010
Zoo is not regular
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
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posted in 18 Feb 2010
Chimpanzee attacks keeper in Florida
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
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posted in 17 Feb 2010
Ivory Coast: Chimpanzees in the wild
  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
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posted in 17 Feb 2010
Respecting Great Primates and ourselves
With this affirmation, an eminent Spanish scientist sums it up the fight that he, other scientists and GAP Project in Spain and in the world face for a decade on behalf of the recognition of the basic rights of Great Primates. In a public declaration this week, Professor Jose Maria
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posted in 17 Feb 2010
Billy: 18 years old and two thousand kilos
CHIMFUNSHI, ZAMBIA Billy is not a chimpanzee. She is female hippo and was one of the first rescues done by Sheila Siddle in her life, in her farm on the countryside of Zambia, Africa east coast. One day Billy appeared lost after hunters had killed her mother. Sheila sheltered her.
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posted in 11 Feb 2010
Different Chimpanzees
AT GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE There is no doubt that theorical primatologists or from zoos would find even exoterical explanation to explain a news species of chimpanzees after reading a research article published on the latest National Geogrpahic Magazine (edition 119). Just like the creation of Frans de Waal of the “peace
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posted in 09 Feb 2010
After 40 years surrounded by concrete, Boy walks on the grass
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY To forbid a chimpanzee to walk on grass throughout his life is a crime. Boy – a 40 year-old chimpanzee, captured in Africa when he was a baby – lived 15 terrible years in a 6 square meter cage – was the first of the group of ten chimpanzees
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posted in 03 Feb 2010
Millionaire trafficking in Africa
AFRICAN GREY PARROT   It is hard to believe that these things still happen. It is not only in Brazil that birds’ trafficking continues to be intense. In Africa it is a genocide that extinguishes a lot of species.  This week authorities from CameroonRepublic delivered to the LimbeWildlifeCenter
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posted in 02 Feb 2010
Scottish zoo produces 1º documentary shot exclusively by chimpanzees
A British TV production agency gave special cameras to chimpanzees to produce the first video shot exclusively by the great apes, in a project called The Chimpcam. During 18 months, eleven chimpanzees of Edinburgh Zoo, in Scotland, shot one another with cameras installed inside special boxes, for the protection of the
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posted in 02 Feb 2010
From observers to observed!
The excellent article from this month National Geographic Magazine (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/congo-chimps/foer-text/1), written by Joshua Foer about the wild chimpanzees in Congo, raised some curious data founded with his discoveries.The social behavior and the group activities are not news anymore. But the way this particular group
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