On December 1 it is celebrated the World Day Against HIV/AIDS and NEAVS/Project R&R remembers Yoko’s story, a male chimpanzee purchased from a circus at age 7 and sent to the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in 1981. He was used extensively in research
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY, FLORIDA (USA) A few hours before Christmas, ten chimpanzees of the group known as Bobby's group will arrive at Save the Chimps Sanctuary coming from New Mexico State. These chimpanzees were at the old medical torture centre of Alamogordo, which had been closed after its bankruptcy
Published at Galileu Magazine, December 2009 By Jaqueline B. Ramos (environmental journalist and Communications Manager of Great Ape Project) Biologically speaking, human beings are nothing less than great apes. We shared with the other four species of this group several similarities, including genetic and behavioral. But there is no doubt that
Chimpanzees from Israel move to their enclosure at Paraná Sanctuary
One month after arriving in Brazil, chimpanzees Mizrachi and Katty got out the quarantine and moved to their definitive enclosure at GAP Sanctuary in Paraná. The left quarantine in November 18 and adapted quickly to the area prepared specially for them by Anami Institute, responsible for the sanctuary in S&
GAP Project launches the biggest enclosure for great primates of Latin America
After one year and two months of construction, GAP Project Sanctuary of Sorocaba (countryside of São Paulo) launches the biggest enclosure for great primates of Latin America. It is an area of more than 12000 square meters that today hosts a group of three adult chimpanzees (Tião,
R&R PROJECT Pepper was rescued 12 years ago from the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), in United States, and was sent to the Fauna Foundation sanctuary by NEAVS (New England Anti-vivisection Society). Her records were incomplete and so, like many chimpanzees, Pepper was assigned
DEPUTIES CHAMBER, BRASILIA, BRAZIL November 17th was another historical day for the fight against the use of animals in circus in Brazil. Justice and Citizenship Commission of the Federal Deputies Chamber approved the report by Deputy Ricardo Tripoli (PSDB-SP), who had been in charge for the voting of the law
ZAMBIA, AFRICA The alert voice echoed in the morning: “Sandy’s group escaped”. This time it was not possible to preview a possible escape, as long as one of the daily duties of the staff at Chimfunshi is to walk around each enclosure and check for broken
PASA NEWS Lottie, 19 year-old female chimpanzee, who was reintroduced to the wild in June 2008 in Guinea, after live for year at CCC (Center for the Conservation of Chimpanzees) Sanctuary, West Africa, has given birth to an apparently health baby. CCC’s director, Estelle Raballand, informed that Lottie was part
Difference between humans and chimpanzees: only one gene separates us
NATURE MAGAZINE PUBLISHES An article at Nature magazine, as informed by newspapers today, demonstrates that the difference between humans and chimpanzees in increasingly subtle. If chimpanzees had the human ability of talking, they would have had already evolved to convert in one of us. The biggest limitation of chimpanzees to
Center For Great Apes E-news, September 23rd 2009 By Patti Ragan, Center for Great Apes (Florida, USA) Earlier this month, I attended the annual Orangutan Workshop at Zoo Atlanta. Wonderful ideas come from these workshops where caregivers, supervisors, curators, and veterinarians come together to discuss ways to better care for
Brazilian Federal Tribunal defines that Ibama should make inspections in circuses at Paraná state
Brazilian Federal Tribunal decided, in a trial promoted early this month, that Brazilian Environment and Renewable Resources Institute (Ibama, in Portuguese) has the duty to make inspections in the treatment of exotic animals used in circus at Paraná state (south of Brazil). After receiving information that a lot of
By Jody Bourton, Earth News reporter An undercover investigation has found that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo. The apes' body parts are then taken downriver and passed on to traders who sell them in
46 rescued orangutans returned to the wild by helicopter in Borneo
Published at mongabay.com The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has successfully released 46 orangutans back into the wild. The orangutans had been rescued from forest fragments and housed for months at the Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Reintroduction Project in Central Kalimantan until suitable — and secure — habitat was located.
Brazilian Federal Tribunal defines that Ibama should make inspections in circuses at Paraná state
Brazilian Federal Tribunal decided, in a trial promoted early this month, that Brazilian Environment and Renewable Resources Institute (Ibama, in Portuguese) has the duty to make inspections in the treatment of exotic animals used in circus at Paraná state (south of Brazil). After receiving information that a lot of
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