GAP PROJECT SPAIN

GAP Project Spain has denounced an agreement made between Santillana del Mar (Cantabria) Zoo and Monkey World (England) to send a nine-month-old baby orangutan, who will be taken out of his mother, to another group of orangutans of the English zoo.

The destruction of the family unit among the great primates, which already happens in nature due to deforestation and hunting, now is being practiced in institutions that call themselves as protectors and conservators of the species of great primates.

Director of GAP Spain, Pedro Pozas Terrados, made a public appeal for the transference to be cancelled and qualifies it as “a cruel act, disguised as a species conservation action.” Pedro Pozas asks that the primates’ defenders send letters to both institutions disapproving the exchange and asking for baby Silvestre not to be taken out of his mother to stay with a strange group:

Spain –http://www.zoosantillanadelmar.com/contacto/Default.aspx
England –apes@monkeyworld.org

GAP Project International makes its denunciation and criticizes the majority of the zoos in the world, which end up destroying family units of great primates, exchanging them between institutions in order to support their objectives of public entertainment.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian

President, GAP Project International