GAP Project International supports the denounce made by GAP Project Spain, which is promoting an alert worldwide so that action is taken urgently in order to stop the extinction of great primates in their habitat in Asia and Africa. The forests of these continents must be declared Humanity Patrimony and the destruction must be detained.

At TaiNational Park, in Ivory Coast, there are only 20 to 30 chimpanzees in the wild; in Tanzânia, from the 10000 chimpanzees who used to live in the country till a few years ago, only remain 100 in Gombe and 600 in MahaleNational Park. In Senegal, a few groups continue to survive in the Savanna. In the area of CrossRiver, West Africa, remain 200 gorillas. On the eight National Parks in Congo, 90% of the gorillas’ population has disappeared. At Kahuzi-BiegaNaturalPark only 130 Mountain Gorillas survive. Only a few thousand bonobos in the south of Congo River survive in the wild. In Sumatra and Borneo – in the southeast of Asia – it is considered that the orangutans will disappear from the wild.

Urgent measures must be taken by Governments and United Nations in order to avoid that this holocaust with our ancestors continue. It’s necessary to block the deforestation projects, which aim to substitute the forests with palm oil plantation and with agriculture and live stock farming. It’s necessary to impede that the iron ore companies destroy great areas of the forest in their advance in the exploitation of minerals and in the production of coal. It’s also necessary to avoid the penetration of humans in the still untouched forests, because they carry diseases and hunters who look for babies and for the meat of adults to sell.

Tropical forests of the planet should be protected urgently, otherwise we will be destroying every being who survive in them and all humanity, due to the climate change and the pollution of the atmosphere.

Dr. Pedro A Ynterian
President, GAP Project International