Spain: GAP Project calls for the Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes and their inclusion as World Living Heritage of Humanity
Given the perilous situation in which great ape populations find themselves and the dramatic appeal [...]
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Giving Day for Apes
Starting today, September 11, until October 3, 2023, join Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries for a global day of giving in support of qualified sanctuaries and rescue centers providing rehabilitation or long-term care for chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons and orangutans throughout Africa, Asia and North America. To know more, visit www.givingdayforapes.org.
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The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo
By Anna Turns (BBC) In 1964, Jane Goodall’s husband Hugo van Lawick took a photo [...]
Jeff McCurry, Harambe’s friend
By Pedro Pozas Terrados (Pressenza) The excellent photographs that Jeff McCurry has taken of nature [...]
Colombia: About the difference between a zoo and a Sanctuary and the transfer of chimp Yoko
On August 8 the Colombian TV channel Pasión Animal #PasionAnimalTV dedicated an almost entire program [...]
Extreme Weather Is Coming. Someone Has to Tell the Chimps.
How do you teach 300 chimpanzees to seek safety in a storm? With cowbells, sound [...]
Save the Chimps Sanctuary: The Carole Noon Legacy Society
The Carole Noon Legacy Society is named in honor of Dr. Carole C. Noon (1949–2009), [...]
Great Primates
Great Primates
Orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo and human. These are the five great primates, which are so defined because they do not have tails and are a little bit ahead of their cousins monkeys on the evolution scale. Popularly one calls all the primates monkeys, but the truth is that monkeys are the ones who have tails. Africa was the place where the first no-tailed primates appeared. Orangutan appeared between 12 and 15 millions years ago, and after came the gorillas (8 to 9 millions) and the humans (7 millions). Chimpanzees and bonobos must have appeared 5 or 6 millions years ago.
Sanctuaries
Affiliated Sanctuaries
GAP Project Brazil has four affiliated sanctuaries that houses more than 70 chimpanzees. All of them fulfill and offers more than the standards defined by Ibama of great primates’ enclosures, as long as the day-to-day routine showed that their needs go beyond the descriptions of the current Brazilian legislation.
The enclosures of the sanctuaries have an internal area with connection aisles and an external area with solariums, where the chimpanzees can play, run, socialize and exercise.
