Mr. President, one of your first decisions when you assumed the Presidency of the United States was to put an end to the secret "torture centers" that existed in the world. This action that aimed to the transparency of your administration was greeted by everyone as a courageous,
SOROCABA SANCTUARY We were never able to find out her true history, where she had came from, how many places she had passed. We only knew that she had given birth to three babies, who, luckly, had been rescued by GAP and were given a decent and human-exploitation free life
We are celebrating the 200th anniversary of birth of evolutionist Charles Robert Darwin, who was born on February 12nd. He was wrongly named as the man who killed God. In a time that religion was more than a simple faith segment, to go against the Church was something not acceptable.
Recently it became known that there are five great primates: man, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan and bonobo. Before that, only four were listed, because the bonobos had not been recognized yet as a species. They were considered as \'pigmy chimpanzees\'. I confess I have never seen a bonobo and
R&R Project (Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in US laboratories) is promoting a world campaign to support a bill proposal o protection of great primates - The Great Ape Protection Act - GAPA - in the United States. The bill has been referred to several committees of North
Guidage, 18 year old female chimpanzee, lived for years in a metallic cage in a car repair office in Bombarral, Portugal. Her partner died in the same cage some months ago and she was very lonely. Mario Carmo (author of the book "I am Chimba" and director of an
A three-month old bonobo baby, called Billi, traveled in the last days of January from Great Britain to Frankfurt, in Germany, together with his zoo keeper in the executive class, as long as he was too small. In general he would be sent in the cargo compartment of the plane.
NGO "STOP ANIMAL EXPLOITATION NOW", from Ohio made a denounce to North American Agriculture Department asking for the investigation of abuse and torture practiced in a private lab of medical experimentation that happens to receive federal funds for its operations. This labs name is New Iberia Research Center,
There is no more than 200 bonobos in zoos around the world and a little bit more than 50 in the unique bonobo sanctuary, the LOLA YA BONOBO, in Congo. Then, when a bonobo dies, it is a important loss in the conservation of the species, and it is even more serious
Debbie Cox is one of the greatest field primatologists in the world. She was founder of PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance - in the year 2000. Nowadays she is Executive Director of Jane Goodall Institute in Uganda, where she lives for a decade. She is 48 years old and has been
Sierra Leone put an end, in 2002, to a civil war that lasted 10 years. In 1981 a census identified only 2000 chimpanzees considered to be wild. Tacugama sanctuary, in collaboration with Forests and Agriculture Ministry, PASA and a group of international organizations, began to do a census to define how many chimpanzees, of
For months Gugas\'s group assisted the construction of a big framework, located about 200 meters away from their house. The chimpanzees knew someone would inhabit it, at any moment. But they did not imagine that it could be so dangerous guests, primates\' predators.A few weeks before the arrival
CATALUN IN SPAIN REACHES RECORD IN THE NUMBER OF PRIMATES AND ANIMALS USED IN EXPERIMENTS In 2002 it had been used 48 primates (species African Cercopithecus). In 2007, 234. The number of animals in general got from 77.754 in 2002 to 215.739 in 2007. It is estimated that all the primates were originated from a breeding…
The country entered the fight for the protection of the ones called great primates in 2000, with the foundation of the first sanctuary for the animals in Sorocaba Unesco defined 2009 as the International Year of the Gorilla. Animals threatened to extinction, the primates became reason of concern to several international
22% of the mountain gorillas (Gorila beringei beringei) from impervious Bwindi National Park, in Uganda, are infected with E. coli, of human origin and with resistance to at least, two antibiotics. When the comparison is made with wild gorillas, who do not have any contact with humans, nor guards, scientists or
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