R&R Project, USA Important Hollywood stars have been supporting the signature campaign in favor of the Great Ape Protection Act (HR1326), which is at North American Congress waiting ti be approved. The most recent episode was stared by actress Emily Deschanel, from the show Bones, who appealed in
CENTER FOR GREAT APES We stayed for a few minutes one looking to the other. Only orangutans have the attitude of looking deeply the unknown human, who is outside the fence. They think this one could have been one of the responsible for them to live in captivity. The magnificence
Ivory Coast, Africa: Little Fanta and her friends in the zoo (WITH VIDEO)
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in Africa In 2006, a young female chimpanzee called Fanta belonged to a man who lived in Taï Park. One day a group of students who was doing a research in the park proposed him to send her to Abidjan Zoo, so she
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
From BBC The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates. Until now, this was thought to be a universal human
At Virunga Mountains The threat now is not exactly of the humans who hunt them. The problem consists on the fires that sprawl through the triple line among Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, which force the Mountain Gorillas to run away to Congo. The lack of water, due to an uncommon
LIMBE SANCTUARY, AFRICA An operation developed together by Cameroon Republic Environmental Department and Limbe Sanctuary rescued three two-year old baby chimps in a wood extraction camp in the countryside of Cameroon. The baby chimps were under control of an Italian man, who had been arrested by the authorities.Vet of
GAP Project will participate next Sunday, July 26, of the show “The Big Questions”, chaired by Nikcy Campbell and broadcasted on BBC1. The show goes out live at 10am and looks at different topics about modern ethical questions. GAP was invited to debate the theme “Should we give
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
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