PRE-ANNOUNCED TRAGEDY Maybe Alemão had the desire to alert, with his death, all who did not allow him to have a life with his equals at GAP sanctuary. Those who used him for 15 years in a 15 square-meters island in Americana Zoo. Those who blocked his transference to the
A recent PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance) alerts that the black market of baby chimpanzees is increasing very fast. In 2009, 28 chimpanzees have already been confiscated by African authorities in several countries and taken off poachers. In the alert, PASA tells the case of two baby chimpanzees confiscated in African east,
VIRUNGA PARK, CONGO On May, Congolese authorities manage to avoid the capture and mailing of a baby gorilla to a foreign country. The baby is part of the group of Mountain Gorillas, which lives at Virunga Park, in Congo. When the baby was found inside a bag, almost dehydrated
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY, USA Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Fort Pierce, Florida, is launching a campaign that will have its mark on July 27, when they intend to reach a total donation of US$ 12,000.00. This amount will allow the sanctuary to install a generator that guarantees the operation, in case
Alert of Primates Trafficking at Arabian Countries
PASA NEWS PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance) produced a poster that is being distributed on the most important harbors of the Arabian world and that denounces the poaching of great primates originated from Africa and Indonesia. The poster, shown above, says “STOP KILLING AND SMUGGLING THESE ANIMALS”
By reading the headline one can ask: what chimpanzees have to do with the French Revolution? Today, July 14th, it is celebrated the 220o anniversary of the fall of the Bastile. For those who do not know, the Bastile was a jail built on 1370 to imprison political opponents and those
Bolivia first country in the world to ban wild and domestic animals from travelling circuses
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales signed on July 2nd a new law to end the use of wild and domestic animals in travelling circuses. After a successful passage through the Congress, the Bill passed the final hurdle, awaiting the President’s signature, and the new Act is expected
Rio de Janeiro zoo is found guilty for stone thrown by chimpanzee
Rio de Janeiro zoo was condemned to pay R$ 5000 (around USD 2500) due to moral injury to a visitor who has suffered an aggression by a chimpanzee, who threw a stone at her that harmed her forehead. The visitor, Rejane Viana de Olimpio, denied she was teasing the chimpanzee, as the
Chester Zoo, Britain's most popular wildlife attraction, was evacuated on Sunday, 5, after 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure. At the moment of the runaway about 5,000 visitors were asked to leave the zoo site as a security measure. The animals made their escape at lunchtime and found their way into a keeper
Chimpanzees who live in inadequate conditions use to have abnormal behavior originated both by physical and mental traumas. In general, we see that those who came from circus are more affected by physical damages, like castration and teeth pulled out, while the ones who came from zoos present psychological traumas
FROM IVORY COAST GAP PROJECT AT TAÏ NATIONAL PARK This is the first one of a series of news coverage that Dr.Serge Soiret, specialist in Tropical Ecology, will be sending us from his observation base at Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, on west Africa, where several
Former circus lions’ odyssey has finished and now they live in peace at the sanctuary
SOROCABA SANCTUARY On April 2009 four lions who worked at a circus were confiscated by Ibama (Brazilian Environment Institute) in a city in the countryside of Pará state, north region of Brazil. The lions were kept in tiny cages, were very thin and in terrible health conditions. Ibama provide the
CENTRE OF GREAT PRIMATES, FLORIDA Due to misunderstandings about the situation of Bubbles, a chimpanzee who used to owned by Michael Jackson, director of the sanctuary Centre of Great Primates (CGA), Patti Ragan, from Wauchula, Florida, published an official communication to the press, explaining the situation of Bubbles: “Bubbles,
An article published at Veja Magazine, one of the main magazines in Brazil, this week tells the story of African grey parrot Alex and his owner, and his ability to communicate and learn. The same article brings a table of some species of animal kingdom and their intelligence abilities (beside).
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