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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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posted in 30 Dec 2008
A FOREST OF HOPE
AN AFRICAN PROJECT BY GREAT APE TRUST OF IOWA With this phrase, President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, defined the project that Great Ape Trust of Iowa Sanctuary, in collaboration with the country\'s government, is implementing at Gishwati Forest. The project is directed by anthropologist Dr. Rebecca Chancellor, selected
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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 29 Dec 2008
GORILLA IZAN DIES IN AFRICAN SANCTUARY
Last December 26th, after a long period suffering with a disease, gorilla Izan died. He was part of a group called "Taiping Four", at Limbe Sanctuary in Republic of Cameroon. The group was formed by Izan and three females. One of the females, Oyin, also died in June,
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posted in 29 Dec 2008
A HEARTFELT MESSAGE OF THANKS
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
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posted in 29 Dec 2008
CHRISTMAS: GIFTS DAY
Christmas Day at Curitiba Sanctuary was a different day, like every other year.The chimpanzees receive the presents and enjoy them intensely.
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posted in 22 Dec 2008
A SYMBOL HAS DIED
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
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posted in 18 Dec 2008
THE LENS THAT REVEALS THE SOUL
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
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posted in 10 Dec 2008
TWO SPIDER MONKEYS ARE BORN IN TWO WEEKS
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
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posted in 04 Dec 2008
ORANGUTANS IN IMMINENT DANGER
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
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