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
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
TRAVIS CASE, USA Environmental Protection Department of North-American state of Connecticut is being sued by Carla Nash, who had been attacked by chimpanzee Travis in the beginning of the year. The department is being charged for negligence, because it was allowed that the chimpanzee lived in a family house
MIAMI METROZOO Josephine is 42 years old, weights 70 kilos and is the oldest gorilla who lives at Metrozoo, in Miami. She practically did not see anymore, did not recognize food or her partners. In the beginning of October, human eye doctor Dr. Frank Spektor, from Kendall district, Miami, supported by a
AFRICAN AND BRAZILIAN SANCTUARIES This dramatic photograph, which has already been promoted by world newspapers and the Internet, shows a group of chimpanzees in front of the funeral of a matriarch of Sanaga-Yong Sanctuary, at CameroonRepublic, West Africa.Dorothy was more than 40 years old and lived as a slave in
The Gorilla Organization is one of the twelve finalists in The World Challenge 2009 competition, with a project developed at VirungaNational Park, in Democratic Republic of Congo, with the mountain gorillas, which are extremely threatened. To help gorillas to fight against extinction, vote on line in the Project by November 13th.
A CRUEL ENEMY Hunters of Uganda hide hundreds of snares in the forests to catch pigs, antelopes and other mammals. They are made of metal and wire and when the legs get stuck in them, it is very hard to get them free without external help. Sometimes primates chew their
JUNGLE KING DISAPPEARS Leela Hazzah, still a teenager, as his father used to do when he was young, climbed the roof of her house at her home country, Egypt, when it was night already and waited patiently to listen to the roars of the lions in the forests around. But
Chimpanzees from Israel arrive at GAP Sanctuary in Paraná
After more than a year of importation bureaucracy procedures, a couple of chimpanzees that lived in bad conditions, in a small cage, in a private zoo in Israel arrived in Brazil. In the evening of last Thursday, October 15th, the male Mizrachi, 24 years old, and the female Katty, 35, arrived at
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