Historic meeting (2013)

August 29, 2013 was a historic day for GAP Project in Brazil and worldwide. One of its founders, the Australian philosopher Peter Singer, had the opportunity to visit the Great Apes Sanctuary of Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, which is affiliated to GAP Project. There he was welcomed by a group of advocates of animal rights and also for two-year-old chimpanzee Suzi , who was born in the sanctuary and threw herself into his arms, as if she knew him for a lifetime.

On the day of the visit, Peter Singer declared himself thrilled to see his work put into practice. Check here a TV programme (parts in English and Portuguese) that covered the historical meeting, and below the covering material of the historic day.

 

https://www.projetogap.org.br/en/noticia/a-dream-came-true/

https://www.projetogap.org.br/en/noticia/first-images-of-peter-singer-founder-of-gap-project-visiting-sorocaba-sanctuary-2/

https://www.projetogap.org.br/en/noticia/meeting-peter-singer/

https://www.projetogap.org.br/en/noticia/peter-singer-our-most-illustrious-visitor/

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The Gap project

The Great Ape Project, or GAP, is an international movement created in 1994 whose main purpose is to fight for the basic rights to life, freedom and non-torture of the nonhuman great apes – Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Orangutans and Bonobos, the closest relatives of man in the animal world. Currently GAP is present in 13 countries – Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Ivory Coast and Japan, in which representatives work mainly to spread the purpose of the cause of the Rights of the Great Apes and in activism.

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