On 18th April, at 9pm, in Galveias Palace, in Lisbon, the 2nd edition of the book “I Am Chimba”, written by Mario Carmo, will be launched.

The event is supported by the local government of Lisbon and, in addition to local authorities, it will be present at the event Dr. Pedro Alejandro Ynterian, President of Project GAP International, Pedro Pozas Terrados,  Executive Director of GAP Project in Spain, and Dr. Catherine Casanova, primatologist of Cambridge University, who has worked in a rehabilitation center of chimpanzees in Guinea.

Representatives of various diplomatic missions in Africa (Angola, Guinea, South Africa), as well as some European countries, will also be present.

The book “I Am Chimba – first edition” tells the saga of Mario Carmo and is family in the rescue of chimpanzee Bongo, who is with us in Sorocaba Sanctuary, and bonobo Chimba, who is at a German zoo. Both were rescued on a market in Angola, where Mario lived and where they were being sold. Hence, years later, he took them to Portugal, where they lived at his home until he was able to send them to a sanctuary and a zoo.

The 2nd edition of the book recounts the last seven years of fighting in rescuing chimpanzees in Africa and Europe and has the collaboration of many people, as the two members of GAP that will be in Portugal for the launch. They give their opinion about the hard work, and sometimes not understood, in defense of the Great Apes.