UGANDA CHIMPANZEE KEEPER’S SACRIFICE EARNS DISNEY CONSERVATION HERO AWARD FOR 2008
Stany Nyandwi, who left his family, his home, and his homeland behind when he helped stage a daring transport of orphaned chimpanzees out of war-torn Burundi to safety in 1995, has been named a Disney Conservation Hero for 2008. Nyandwi is the head caregiver at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in
Fifteen chimpanzees who used to live at CCC Sanctuary (Center for the Conservation of Chimpanzees) at Guinea Republic were released at the forest after rehabiliation work that lasted more than 5 years. The group, which is formed by 6 males and 9 females, was released at National Park of Upper Niger on June 27
After years of terror, abuse, misfortune and destruction of his body, but not of his spirity, the chimpanzee Jaybee has arrived at his new home in Florida, together with 9 of his best friends. Jaybee is the symbol of humankind insanity against his non-human brothers. But his resistance and his
Our Honour President from GAP Project, the philosopher Peter Singer congratulate everybody involved in the victory in Spain, specially GAP Projects executives and members, and the policital parties that introduced the proposal in the Parlament, and get approval United Left Front and Green Party from Catalunya.
SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARYSELL OF PAINTINGS BY CHIMPANZEESThe Art Fair known as ArtBeat is celebrated in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, on July 18th and 19th. During the event, artists and public get together on Davis Square, where they can listening to music, dance and buy handmade products. This year, Save
SPANISH PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS GAP PROJECT AND ITS OBJECTIVESA few hours ago the Spanish Parliament submitted to discussion and approved a resolution by the Izquerda Unida Paliament Comission and Catalunya Party which requests that the Government recoganizes, within four months, GAP Project (PGS, in Spain) and its objectives as principals
Danny Wallace is a TV program presenter at BBC. His film CHIMPS ARE PEOPLE TOO takes you all over the world - from Africa to United States - to show that chimpanzees are people, like us, too. He concludes that everyone accepts the fact that chimpanzees have 99,4% of
GAP PROJECT AT INTERNET Watch the video filmed by Andre Vasco at GAPωs sanctuary in Sorocaba, São Paulo. It was produced to attend specially young people.The link is http://www.andrevasco.com/index.phpωvideo=DQXIEF
GAP Sanctuary, Brazil Last saturday, march 29th, in the Sanctuary of Great Primates in Sorocaba, the team of the Eye Clinic of Sao Paulo, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Walton Nose, one of the great brazilian specialist on human ophtalmology, gave back vision to Hulk's left eye. Hulk, a 33
This Frans de Waal would have to include in his book and his lectures, the end of those two sensible and defenseless beings he had been bringing up in his country- Holland, in that tenebrous center of reproduction, similar to the north American one- Yerkes- where he works, a place
Recent experiments in the Institut of Evolutive Antropology Max Planck, in Leipzig (Germany), had demonstrated that chimpanzees help themselves when not related, when placed before a challenge (source- Reinaldo J. Lopes www.gl.com.br). In this article published in the scientific magazine – “PLOS Biology”, he was also registered the
Two Mountain Gorillas have been killed by rebels in Congo
There are only 700 Mountain Gorillas left in the world and 380 of them are in the wild, living in the volcanic region between Congo (Zaire), Rwanda and Uganda- Central Africa. Laurent Nkuanda, a renegade soldier, along with his group of rebels operates in the region known as Virunga National Park, an
From PASA (Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance) Can you imagine how it must feel to spend 17 years in a cage so tiny that you can’t even stand up or straighten your legs? It’s hard for me to think about. But for Utah and Mungo, this was reality. Every day,
During a meeting held in Madrid, last 30 July, historical decisions were taken to convert the GAP Project into a more truly INTERNATIONAL movement, that would better reach the entire world and every country. The most important decisions approved by unanimous vote were: 1) The International Direction Board of GAP Project will
The human superiority which judges itself owner of the world, has created the species segmentation and its nationality. The chimps are considered exotic beings due to their African origin. Human being ancestors are the same as those of chimps, meaning both have African origin. Therefore, human beings in Brazil could
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