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posted in 16 Aug 2008
CHIMPANZEES FROM LE CIRQUE KEPT AT GAP PROJECT SANCTUARY
Chimpanzees from Le Cirque kept at GAP Project Sanctuary   16/08/2008: Federal Regional Tribunal (TRF, in Portuguese) from Brasília ω DF suspended, on the early evening yesterday, the resolution that had been signed by the 9th Federal Bureau from DF in favour of the circus Le Cirque. The resolution
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posted in 15 Aug 2008
OPEN LETTER TO PEPSICO PRESIDENT
São Paulo, August 14th, 2008 Mr. Otto SothenPepsico Brazil President Dear President Sothen, In a world where the big corporations are more and more concerned with the environment, investing in ways to reduce atmosphere pollution and enrich biodiversity preservation, it is nonsense to sponsor a TV commercial to be
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posted in 15 Aug 2008
ARCUS FOUNDATION CHALLENGE
Arcus Foundation, from North America, has launched a challege to everyone who supports Save The Chimps Sanctuary, at Fort Pierce, Florida, the biggest Chimpanzees Sanctuary of the world. For each dollar donated by people in general, the foundation will also put one dollar, till the mark reaches half million dollars.
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posted in 15 Aug 2008
THE INSOLIT
PUBLISHED IN THE MIAMI HERALD IN SPANISH ON JULY 1ST, 2008  THE INSOLIT Spanish legislators probably are not concerned with the bulls that die on the arenas of the country, but they have approved a pioneer law that defines that the simians hominides have their rights. The Environmental Comission
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posted in 15 Aug 2008
AT AFRICA COUNTRYSIDE GAP PROJECT IN THE WAY TO THE CHIMPANZEES
On August 16th, an expedition composed by ten volunteers of GAP Project Spain with the leadership of Paco Cuellar, International Director of GAP Project in Europe, will leave Madrid to go to Senegal, to meet the primatologist Jill Pruetz and her advanced group at a protect area called Fongoli, where
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posted in 13 Aug 2008
CAROLE NOON REMEMBERS CARRIE
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY CAROLE NOON REMEMBERS CARRIE Carrie was born in Africa 46 years ago. She was caught when she was still a baby and was sent to United States, where she was sold in 1963 to the Primates Studies Institute. There they did experiments about the cognitive capacity
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posted in 08 Aug 2008
CIRCUS LAW PROJECT
CIRCUS LAW PROJECT PUBLIC AUDIENCE AT THE NATIONAL CONGRESS WAS POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 4TH The mobilization is suspended until a few weeks before the audience.
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posted in 07 Aug 2008
GORILLA ASSUMES ADOPTION OF ORFAN BABY
A female gorilla that had a hard life travelling half the world with men exploiting her has assumed the adoption of a one year-old baby gorilla at Limbe Sanctuary, in Cameroon. Abbey travelled illegaly with her group to Asia, to live in a zoo. The group was intercepted on the
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posted in 07 Aug 2008
LOWLAND GORILLAS
NEW DISCOVERIES RAISES THE POPULATION According to the 1980\'s calculation, there were about 100.000 lowland gorillas on Central and Ocidental Africa. It was estimated that this population was droping rapidly due to Ebola virus and bushmeating. But in a recent study released at a scientific event at Edinburgh, in
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posted in 05 Aug 2008
GAP PROJECT AFFILIATES TO WSPA
GAP PROJECT AFFILIATES TO WSPA AND PARTICIPATES OF MEETING WITH OTHER MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS After the visit of Elizabeth Mac Gregor to Vargem Grande Paulista Sanctuary and temporary Rescue Center, GAP Project formally has affiliated to WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals.On July 31st, GAP
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posted in 05 Aug 2008
TORTURE EFFECTS ARE THE SAME ON CHIMPANZEES AND HUMANS
ITωS PROVED NOW  TORTURE EFFECTS ARE THE SAME ON CHIMPANZEES AND HUMANS Photo: Jaybee (tortured, now she is at Florida Sanctuary) Chimpanzees submitted to laboratory experiment suffer from the same type of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) that humans suffer after being submitted to torture. The
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posted in 31 Jul 2008
DRA. JANE GOODALL WILL BE HONORIS CAUSA FOR UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE
DRA. JANE GOODALL WILL BE HONORIS CAUSA FOR UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTEPrimatologist Jane Goodall wins one more degree among many others she has been collecting during her life with the work in defense of the Great Primates. Attending a request from Paco Cuellar, director of the GAP Project in Europe, University
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posted in 30 Jul 2008
ROCKY AND KATY ADAPT TO COMMOM LIFE
GREAT APE TRUST OF IOWA After living together for more than two weeks, both the mother Katy, 19 years old, and his son Rocky, 3, have been adapting very well to share the same space. Although they are mother and son, they had never lived together before. So, Katy has to
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posted in 30 Jul 2008
DEAL WITH DRAKE UNIVERSITY
Great Ape Trust of Iowa Sanctuary has made a deal for cooperation and fund raising with Drake University, to develop together non-invasive studies with great primates.Great Ape Trust of Iowaωs mission is to understand the origin and the future of the culture, language, tools and intelligence of
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posted in 29 Jul 2008
LONELY CHIMPANZEE GOES TO A SANCTUARY
Martha is 13 years old and spent two years locked in a small cage at Kumasi Zoo, in Ghana. Before that she was at Accra Zoo, which was locked in 2006. Martha was depressed and abandoned and now she has hope and a new life forward. Eden Sanctuary, in South Africa, founded
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