Dear Friends,I wanted to write to thank all of you for your expressions of support and condolence after Gregoire\'s passing. We received hundreds of very kind and heartfelt messages. Each letter meant so much to me, and to all of us at JGI. It \'s wonderful to see
PASA NEWS Gregoire lived for 40 years isolated in a substandard zoo. In 1997 he was taken, by plane, to Tchimpounga Sanctuary, when the civil war was exploding in Congo Brazzaville, and the zoo was a zone of the conflicts. It is estimated that Gregoire was 66 years old. He resisted to
GAP PROJECT AFRICA Aisha Bonet was born in Ibiza, a Mediterranean island that belongs to Spain. With 30 years old she has a long resume of journeys through the world. She has been with Borneo orangutans, the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the Congo chimpanzees and with her powerful lens that
SOROCABA SANCTUARY During November on Sorocaba Sanctuary there were born two females spider monkeys of red face (Ateles paniscus), both abandoned by their mothers. We are taking care of them and when they are strong enough they will be reintegrated to their mothers\' routine. Nica and Teca
BORNEO DEVASTATED bY Fernando Turmo, PGS/ GAP Spain Four hundred dollars per ton. This is the approximated amount paid for the palm oil, a trade that threats to hit the final stroke to the unavoidable climate change on our Mother Earth. Millions of square kilometers of tropical
LOLA YA BONOBO SANCTUARY One decade ago, Claudine André, who is Belgian but lives for many years at Congo Democratic Republic, founded the sanctuary Lola Ya Bonobo, near the capital Kinshasa, where currently 63 orfan bonobos are being taking care. Claudine did not only do this extraordinary rescue work, but
How far it goes the reasoning capacity of a chimpanzeeω And of an orangutanω Of a gorillaω In captivity it is easy to observe dissimulation behaviors and even the planning of attitudes by the chimpanzees, which go against the arguments given back by anthropologists who insist on
A lot is known about the sixth sense, but few - or no - scientific base is able to explain it. It is a phenomenon that is not explained, but is believed to exist only between humans. Have you ever felt a different sensation, as if you had been oriented
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARYThe well known blues musician Harry Hmura (who used to be a member of the band Cotton Blues Band) is presenting his third annual concert to raise fund to Save the Chimps Sanctuary, on Florida. This year the concert will take place on the The Falcon House,
OPEN DEBATE Monday, November 17, I was talking with Dr. Pedro and he came to me with a intriguing question: what is it to be a human beingω I thought for some minutes and answered using a biological logic, with the definition of the species Homo sapiens. But the
GREAT APE TRUST SANCTUARY After a successful debut in 2007, Great Ape Trust\'s Apes Helping Apes art exhibit and conservation fund-raiser has returned for a second year. The exhibit opened to the public Friday, Nov. 14, at The Avenue Gallery in West Glen Town Center, Des Moines. Two paintings auctioned
BOYCOTT GIBRALTAR GAP Project Spain are speaking out against the authorities of Gibraltar for having sacrificed ten monkeys of the species Macaca sylvanus, which lived on the territory, because they were supposed to be bothering residents and tourists. These monkeys live in freedom in this area for a lot of
AN ALERT IN USA Pediatrics Academy of the United States is alerting all north Americans, specially children and youngsters, about the danger of buying and keeping at home wild animals due to the high risk of transmission of diseases. Dr. Larry Pickering, from CDC Atlanta, official institution responsible for monitoring
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