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posted in 04 Feb 2009
TORTURE CENTER UNDER ACCUSATION
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,
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posted in 04 Feb 2009
BABY BONOBO DIES UNEXPECTADLY
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
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posted in 29 Jan 2009
DEBBIE COX WINS AUTRALIAN PRIZE
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
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posted in 29 Jan 2009
CHIMPANZEES CENSUS IN SIERRA LEONE
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
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posted in 28 Jan 2009
DANGEROUS VISITORS
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
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posted in 22 Jan 2009
GAP AND DARWIN ALERT
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…
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posted in 20 Jan 2009
THE GREAT PRIMATES
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
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posted in 15 Jan 2009
GORILLAS ECOTOURISM IN DANGER
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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posted in 14 Jan 2009
PANISH PARLIAMENT REQUIRES THAT THE GOVERNMENT APPROVE GAP PROJECT
Environment, Agriculture and Fishing Commission of Spanish Parliament asked to the Government Chief to recognize publicly the support to Great Ape Project (GAP) in Spain, as it was approved by the Deputies. On June 25th 2008, this commission approved a motion that suggested that the Spanish Government should support Great Ape
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posted in 07 Jan 2009
BLOW ME DOWN! CHIMPANZEES SURPRISE IN THE INTERACTION WIT HUMANS
Great primates recognize their image in mirrors and photographs, send kisses, get depressed and enjoy a friendly shoulder. For these reasons the members of GAP Project defend their rights. By: Maíra Lie Chao Couple Pedro and Vânia Maria Ynterian had just adopted Guga, a male chimpanzee,
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posted in 07 Jan 2009
GORILLAS FROM CROSS RIVER
In the jungles of Republic of Cameroon there is Takamanda National Park, where the last 115 individuals of a gorilla species that can disappear completely from the earth if urgent protection action is not taken hide nowadays. Cameroon and Niger governments agree on providing special shelter in this park, which had
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posted in 02 Jan 2009
PASA CONGRATULATES EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS IT
We extend to everyone the message sent by PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance), which fights for the welfare of our forgotten brothers in the heart of Africa.
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posted in 02 Jan 2009
PASA CONGRATULATES EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS IT
We extend to everyone the message sent by PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance), which fights for the welfare of our forgotten brothers in the heart of Africa.
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posted in 30 Dec 2008
GAP PROJECT AND MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE
AGREEMENT TO A PARTNERSHIP WORK IN IVORY COAST GAP Project Spain (PGS) is beginning a partnership collaboration work with the renowned German Evolutionary Anthropology Institute Max-Planck, in Ivory Coast, where the majority of the chimpanzees has been disappearing in the last years. The destruction of the forests, already
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posted in 30 Dec 2008
HE KNOWS TO WHISTLE
Orangutan Bonnie surprised the primatology world when she learned an ability that is unprecedented to apes, but common to humans: to whistle. It is the first time that scientists register a case of an orangutan able to imitate sounds of other species. Bonnie learned to whistle spontaneously, copying her keepers
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