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
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
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.
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
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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