FAUNA FOUNDATION SANCTUARY Tom was the great ambassador of hundreds of chimpanzees who still suffer in research labs cages in USA. His sad story and his strong personality were the way to show North-American society the need to approve the Bill proposal 1326, which is being evaluated in the Congress and
Fifty years ago more than 500 thousand lions lived in the wild at African countries. Today they do not reach 16 thousand. The estimative is that they won’t exist in 20 years. Among predatory hunting and habitat destruction, another enemy is threatening the survival of the lions: a group of
CARLA NASH BEFORE AND AFTER These images here shown, which appear in a interview at Youtube, are extremely shocking. Carla Nash tried to avoid that chimpanzee Travis had his freedom time out of Sandra Herold’s house, in Stamford, Connecticut, and suffered a violent attack that deformed her completely.
GAP Project participated this last weekend (December 4 to 6) of the IV WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) National Convention. The event was promoted in Belo Horizonte city and gathered animal protection NGOs from all over Brazil, which had the opportunity to do a balance of the breakthroughs achieved
African children on ‘gorilla warfare’ mission in run-up to COP15
Paris, December 2009 - Seven poor African children fly to Paris on dream-of-a-lifetime trip to be crowned ‘Young Ambassadors of the Great Apes’ “It’s the gorillas I’ve got to thank for bringing me here,” said Sephora Binet-Mboti, (13), as she gazed up, wide-eyed,
SHOCKING IMAGES A few days ago we put bear Faze, who arrived from Bahia weeks ago, to sleep, in order to do a general check up of his health state and check his mouth problem, as long as he presents serious difficulties to chew food. What we saw were shocking
By Patti Ragan, Director of the Center for Great ApesDear Center Family and Friends…We’ve had a very special event this week, and I wanted to share it with a few of you before I tell about in our next Email Newsletter.Four years ago, a tragic
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
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