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posted in 09 Oct 2008
CIRCUS WITHOUT ANIMALS ARE COOL: shows in Brasilia
Aiming to demonstrate to society the value of the circuses art and to show that this has nothing to do with exploitation of animals, GAP Project, ANAMI Institute, Ibama (Brazilian Institute for the Environment), World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA - Brazil) and Brasilia Zoo Foundation, with
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posted in 09 Oct 2008
EXPEDITION TO SENEGAL
The first challenge we had to deal with was to coordinate flights and hours so that the partners from different places could meet with us. The majority left from Barajas airport, in Madrid. Anna Mula joined us in Casablanca, and Oscar and Marta in Tambacuonda (Senegal). The operation worked with
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posted in 08 Oct 2008
HOW HUNDREDS OF CHIMPANZEES WERE USELESS TORTURED
TO JEROM IN MEMORIUM"Like every experiment with live animals, Jerom suffered a lot during the period that the disease was inoculated in his body. Without the use of medicines, not even to ease the pain, in order not to impact the experiment. I have been with Jerom in
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posted in 07 Oct 2008
ACCUSATION AGAINST ALASKA CIRCUS, SPAIN
GAP PROJECT URGES FOR CIRCUS BOYCOTT   GAP Project (PGS, in Spanish) has launched in Spain an alert to all the citizens of Jerez da Frontera area and of cities on Andaluzia for them not to allow the installation of circuses with animals, specially one named Alaska, which uses several
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posted in 03 Oct 2008
NATIONAL PRIMATE LIBERATION WEEK
NATIONAL PRIMATE LIBERATION WEEKOCTOBER 11TH - 18TH 2008            Make it count for the primates in labsJoin Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) and Last Chance for Animals (LCA) for National Primate Liberation Week 1.3. CANDLELIGHT VIGIL UCLAMonday October 13th, 5:00 - 7:00
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posted in 02 Oct 2008
ORANGUTANS NEAR TO EXTINCTION
CRUELTY at Indonésia (Article published at Época Magazine)photo: The female orangutan Mutia, who was found chained inside a drain. The species is threatened to extinction Mutia, a 17 year-old female orangutan, was found by an animal defense NGO inside the drain of a fabric industry at
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posted in 02 Oct 2008
HOMO TROGLODYTES: FROM THE ORIGINS TILL NOWADAYS!
THAT\'S HOW LINNEAUS CLASSIFIED Homo troglodytes: from the origins till nowadays   In the 18th century, taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, who created the binomial naming system and the scientific classification, was the one who put together in groups the living beings considering their similarities and refined the species naming
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posted in 01 Oct 2008
NEW COMPLEX IN SOROCABA WILL REHOME FELINES
NEW COMPLEX IN SOROCABA WILL REHOME FELINES (Translation of an article published at Folha de São Paulo in 1st October, 2008)    Owner of a Sanctuary which house around 200 animals in Sorocaba (99 km from São Paulo), biochemist and businessman in the laboratories area Petro Ynterian
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posted in 01 Oct 2008
CIRCUS AND ORGANIZATIONS DISPUTE ANIMALS IN BRASÍLIA
Circus and organizations dispute animals in Brasília(Translation of an article published at Folha de São Paulo in 1st October, 2008) by VERÔNICA COUTO Circus and non-governmental organizations are going to battle in Brasilia, on November 4th, during a public audience at the Congress
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posted in 30 Sep 2008
ANIMAL RIGHTS: ETHICS AND RESPECT
ANIMAL RIGHTS: ETHICS AND RESPECT By Jaqueline B. Ramos*   The analysis of the way we deal with Nature evokes a very important reflection: the way that human beings relate to, use and/or exploit the non-human animals. Today there is no more doubt about the sentience of the
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posted in 15 Sep 2008
THE PRIMATES MEGH AND DEBBY LILI WAIT FOR THE HABEAS CORPUS DECISION
THE PRIMATES MEGH AND DEBY ARE TREATENED AS DAUGHTERS BY THE FAMILY THAT IS ASKING IN THE JUSTICE FOR A HABEAS CORPUS IN ORDER TO AVOID THAT THEY ARE RELEASED IN THE WILD Photo: Debby, 3, enjoys her skate board in the 300 m2 game room Pet Chimpanzees by Flávia
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posted in 11 Sep 2008
HABEAS CORPUS TO CHIMPANZEES IS GOING TO BE BETTER ANALYSED BY STJ – SUPERIOR TRIBUNAL OF JUSTICE IN BRAZIL
São Paulo, 11/09/2008: The trial of the habeas-corpus ordered to benefit two chimpanzees that live at "Caminhos da Evolução" Sanctuary, located in Ibiuna (São Paulo state countryside) and affiliated to GAP Project, was interrupted last week by the Minister Herman Benjamin, from
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posted in 11 Sep 2008
A FAIR HABEAS CORPUS
THEY ARE PEOPLE TOO      Lili and Megh\'s case, chimpanzees who live at "Evolution Ways Sanctuary", owned by Rubens Forte and family - located in the city of Ibiúna and affiliated to GAP Project, became news with no effort.   It\'s a
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posted in 11 Sep 2008
ANOTHER MYTH FALLS APART
THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN A group of anthropologists has been sustaining that the size of the brain is a human characteristic and that the great primates, because of the size of their brains, can not be considered humans. In a recent work published in Proceedings of the National Academy
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posted in 10 Sep 2008
A LETTER FROM PHYLLIS
My mother\'s name was Anna. She was born in Africa. When she was just a baby she was kidnapped by the United States Air Force and used in the early days of NASA\'s space travel research. My name is Phyllis and I was born in a cage at
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