New Habeas Corpus in favor of Jimmy is ordered in Rio de Janeiro state
JIMMY CASE Professor Dr. Heron Santana and a group of lawyers and public attorneys, together with the most renowned world scientists of Anthropology, Philosofy and Primatology, ordered, last January 19, in Rio de Janeiro Justice Tribunal (TJRJ), a new Habeas Corpus in favor of chimpanzee Jimmy, who lives isolated for years
SCIENTIFIC WORK QUESTIONS A scientific work published this month at Spanish Primatology Association Magazine, signed by two Brazilian biologists, criticizes the Brazilian rules to maintain great primates in cages in zoos, comparing them to the North American and European rules and to the standards adopted at GAP Sanctuary in Sorocaba.
USA: 141 votes in favor of The Great Ape Protection Act
R&R Project R&R Project, together with other organizations, are working intensely since the beginning of the year to be succeed in the approval, by North-American Congress, of the GAP Act – The Great Ape Protection Act. It is a bill proposal that guarantees the retirement of
SOROCABA SANCTUARY Female lion Carol, who arrived four months ago from a circus from Espírito Santo together with his mother, Sarita, and the male Chimarrão, has given birth to two baby lions last Tuesday. Unfortunately only one of them survived. Carol is young, it was
We have already see them using tools of different ways all over African continent – cutting nuts with rocks to take out their meat, taking out the leaves of a branch to get ants, drinking water through a leaf or even turning the branches of a tree into lances, which
Chimpanzees are able to predict the behavior of the fire
Observation work was made at Senegal in 2006 and indicates that the animals had already made their first step towards fire control. The next steps would evolve the ability to contain it adding or removing fuel materials and the ability to generate it. After the discovery that the chimpanzees from Senegal
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast The cable trap is a method of non-selective capture used by hunters around the TaiNational Park to obtain bushmeat. In November, during our field work, chimpanzee Manchot was a victim of this abhorrent activity. His left arm was
Le Cirque loses all the animals and is condemned for mistreating
Brasília, Brazil: In a long 16 page sentence elaborated by Judge Esdras Neves, of Justice Tribunal of Federal District, the circus Le Cirque lost the property of all the animals that had already been confiscated by Ibama on July-August 2008. Besides, the circus’ owners were condemned for mistreating and
NASA will submit South-American monkeys to radiation
SPEAK OUT AGAINST! Getting back to its experiments of the past, when a lot of chimpanzees and other primates were killed for nothing, NASA has just announced that will submitt a group of 18 to 28 monkeys of the species Saimiri, originated from South America, to the effects of long radiation in
By Serge K. Soiret, GAP correspondent in West Africa, from Ivory Coast Very early the morning, we move into the forest to the research of the chimpanzees. After several hours of walk and listening, we finally find them. We are in the season of Sacoglottis gabonensis at TaiNational Park.
Watch the Christmas party of Save the Chimps Sanctuary
December 25 on CNN CNN, at American Morning TV show, will exhibit the Christmas party prepared for the chimpanzees at Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Fort Pierce, Florida. Share with more than 200 chimpanzees the joy of celebrating Christmas far away from the cages and medical torture – for some, a first
Habeas Corpus for a zoo chimpanzee is ordered in Brazil
GAP Project together with other animal protection organizations challenges Brazilian Judicial System and asks for the Habeas Corpus of a chimpanzee December, 17, 2009: In the beginning of the week, GAP (Great Ape Project) together with other representatives of Brazilian animal protection organizations entered with a formal process at the city
PASA NEWS The Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) has released the PASA Operations Manual, a 134-page guidebook to modern sanctuary management that addresses everything from staff size to veterinary care and is the result of nearly two years’ work. The PASA Operations Manual replaces the original PASA Handbook, which
FAUNA FOUNDATION SANCTUARY Tom was the great ambassador of hundreds of chimpanzees who still suffer in research labs cages in USA. His sad story and his strong personality were the way to show North-American society the need to approve the Bill proposal 1326, which is being evaluated in the Congress and
Fifty years ago more than 500 thousand lions lived in the wild at African countries. Today they do not reach 16 thousand. The estimative is that they won’t exist in 20 years. Among predatory hunting and habitat destruction, another enemy is threatening the survival of the lions: a group of
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