GAP Project in Chile, directed by Dr. Elba Muñoz, launched a public campaign for the release of Sandai, male orangutan who came from France and lives alone in a private zoo in Santiago, capital of Chile.

At the same time we ask everyone to spread this campaign “Free Sandai”, which joins other campaigns –  freedom for Sandra, female orangutan of Buenos Aires zoo, in Argentina, and male orangutanToto, in the Chapultepec Zoo, Mexico, one questions the existence of zoos as centers for human fun.

Sandai is a Borneo Orangutan who was born 22 years ago at Cologne Zoo, Germany. Then he was sent to a zoo in France and then was acquired by private Zoo Buin, in Chile.

In the first year ever at the zoo, lonely, Sandai is beginning to show the first symptoms of depression. The absurd propaganda that both European zoos and the Chilean do, to justify this transfer of great primates from an establishment to another, only causes the suffer of these beings, due to the separation from their closest relatives, to enrich with his presence, with advertising and economic gains of the deluded visitation of those attending the zoo to enjoy the new acquisition.

In the twenty-first century, zoos for entertainment centers for humans must be eradicated, since the only thing  they have achieved in decades of existence is the pain and suffering of millions of innocent beings who die prematurely, due to the miserable life they lead caged for human amusement.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian

President, GAP Project International