SPIDER MONKEY IN CHAINS IN SÃO PAULO AN SOS FAUNA OPERATION The photos of this article are frightful. Nevertheless, for a lot of years the Environmental Police was being sent alerts and nothing was done. This spider monkey of white forehead is threatened to extinction and arrived to
FEMALE ELEPHANT IS CONFISCATED BY IBAMA IN CURITIBA
FEMALE ELEPHANT IS CONFISCATED BY IBAMA IN CURITIBA A female elephant called Bambi has been confiscated temporarily by Ibama in Curitiba. She was with Circus Moscou, but it seems that she really belongs to Circus Orlando Orfei, which owns a significant quantity of animals. In order not be guilty
A previously unknown population of rare orangutans has been discovered in the forests of Indonesian Borneo, raising hopes for the species' survival. Up to 5,000 endangered Bornean orangutans are believed to be living in limestone mountains in East Kalimantan province after surveyors in December found 219 orangutan "nests", according to
SOROCABA SANCTUARY Every animal that are in circuses have chains around their necks. It is the way to dominate them and a reminder of the torture that they suffer in there. Throughout all these years of chimpanzees' rescues, we have been pulling out these mankind shame chains. Bear Faze, who
SPIDER MONKEY IN CHAINS IN SÃO PAULO AN SOS FAUNA OPERATION The photos of this article are frightful. Nevertheless, for a lot of years the Environmental Police was being sent alerts and nothing was done. This spider monkey of white forehead is threatened to extinction and arrived to
SPIDER MONKEY IN CHAINS IN SÃO PAULO AN SOS FAUNA OPERATION The photos of this article are frightful. Nevertheless, for a lot of years the Environmental Police was being sent alerts and nothing was done. This spider monkey of white forehead is threatened to extinction and arrived to
Mar 26th 2009 From The Economist print edition Gorillas may not be as vegetarian as they are supposed to be GORILLAS are gentle giants, chimpanzees aggressive killers and bonobos sex-crazed vegetarians. That, at least, is the PR which has been created around the three species of ape most closely related to
Chimfunshi is one of the oldest chimpanzee sanctuaries of the world and one of the biggest, with 126 chimpanzees, founded and managed by family Siddle. The founder Sheila Siddle and her husband live in Zambia, on Africa west coast, since their youth. Her husband passed away recently. Sandy, a female
A 9-year old chimpanzee, called Timmy, who had ran away of an illegal breeder in Winston, Missouri, has been shot to death by a police chief of this North American town. Apparently he tried to get into the police car. According to police investigation, this location, which is 90 km to
PAMELA ANDERSON FIGHTS FOR FREE THE CHIMPS IN FLORIDA
North American actress Pamela Anderson has joined forces with animal rights campaigners in a bid to free apes kept in "squalid\' captivity in the U.S. state of Florida. Anderson has written an open letter to Florida governor Charlie Crist, targeting \'road-side zoos\' in the state, where
"We use healthy mice that take medicines to have symptoms similar to the ones of Parkinson disease. We also use paralyzed mice, with injuries in the spinal cord. In 2009 we are going to re-apply the study in tamarims, at Neurosciences Institute in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte"(&
CHIMPANZEES USE BRANCHES TO GET HONEY (with video)
CHIMPANZEES USE BRANCHES TO GET HONEY (with video) Images taped by scientists in Congo Republic revealed how chimpanzees "armed" with trees\' branches attack beehives to obtain honey. The primates prepare different tools, manufactured with trees\' branches, to be able to break the beehives, as it is
Coltan is the main cause of a conflict which has claimed the lives of four million people since 1997 and as also caused the disappearance of several populations of gorillas.The extraction of coltan, a very rare mineral used mainly for technological purposes, has led to a long internal conflict in
FONGOLI RESERVE, SENEGAL Anthropologist Jill Pruetz and her team put Aimee, a female 9 month-old baby chimpanzee, inside a bag less than 15 meters away of a group of chimpanzees that they were accompanied for more than 7 years. And they prayed for her. A young chimpanzee, Mike, got near, smelled the surprising
WORK MEETING IN UNITED STATES It has been almost one decade since the idea and PASA Project materialized. In 2000, in the first event in Uganda, a group of African sanctuaries participated of the first meeting, organized by Jane Goodall Institute and Reproduction Specialists for Conservation Group. After that pioneer meeting,