GAP Spain condemns the fire that occurred in the Krefeld Zoo, Germany, where eight great apes have died
From GAP Spain 2020 begins with a new tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, located west [...]
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GAP Brazil: Sanctuary offers to welcome surviving chimpanzees of German zoo fire
In the face of the unprecedented tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo, in Germany, on the first night of the year, in which five orangutans, two gorillas, one chimpanzee and 30 other primates and birds were burned alive, the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, in São Paulo, Brazil, together with GAP Project International, makes an urgent […]
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Gorillas, orangutans and chimps die in German zoo fire
From The Guardian Dozens of animals including gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees were killed at a [...]
GAP Spain releases book “The Great Apes and their basic rights”
By Pedro Pozas (Director of Gap Spain and President of GAP Project International) At the [...]
Happy Christmas and a lots of success in 2020
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Happy 2020. GAP Project [...]
Help Cozy and other chimps and primates
From PASA – Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance We cannot imagine the terrible suffering Cozy endured [...]
‘Property’ or ‘person’? How animal rights could open new moral frontier
By Eoin O’Carroll (The Christian Science Monitor) In a forested reserve in central Florida, Sandra is [...]
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.
