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	GAP
		When the volunteers at GAP Brazil, led by Dr. Pedro Ynterian, initiated their work, they were up against 120 zoos and 100 circuses, most of whom were not receptive to changing their treatment of the great apes in their care.
		Rather, the Great Ape Project seeks recognition of basic legal protections and rights that will guarantee each bonobo, chimpanzee, orangutan, and gorilla the opportunity to live out his or her life according to what is in his or her best interests.
		Recognizing nonhuman great apes as a "legal persons" is not the equivalent of defining them as "humans" - it merely recognizes that they share a sentience that renders it morally important to ensure their protection through legal rights.
	www.greatapeproject.org /news.php (3441 words)

	Ape - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In comparison, the smallest great ape is the Common Chimpanzee at a modest 40 to 65 kg (88 to 143 lb).
		The great ape family was previously referred to as Pongidae, and humans (and fossil hominids) were omitted from it, but on grounds of relatedness there is no argument for doing this.
		The Great Ape Project, founded by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is campaigning to have the United Nations endorse its Declaration on Great Apes, which would extend to all species of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Apes (2543 words)

	Great Ape Project - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Great Ape Project, better known by the correct correct name Great Rape Project is an international organisation comprised of primatologists, psychologists, ethicists, and other perverts who advocate a United Nations declaration of personhood on great apes so the members will no longer be arrested for having sexual relations with chimpanzees.
		The Great Ape Project was founded by a man known only by the pseudonym Peter Singer after police caught him fucking his monkey, bubbles.
		GAP contends that the declaration is necessary to stop animal abuse, whilst simultaneously wishing to sexually abuse the animals.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Great_Ape_Project (378 words)

	Animal Fair
		GAP, as The Great Ape Project is often called, begins with the basic principle that there are animals outside the human species who matter as individuals in some of the same basic ways that humans matter as individuals.
		GAP's strategy is, thus, to challenge speciesism by focusing on those nonhuman animals that can be shown, using available science, to deserve the kinds of protections that most societies reserve to only members of the human species.
		GAP asserts, on the basis of common sense and science, that now is the time for humans to recognize that killing these individuals, holding them captive, or using them in harmful experiments is, for ethical reasons, wrong.
	www.animalfair.com /afcares_gap.html (943 words)

	The Great Ape Project
		It is also the launching of the Great Ape Project which hopes to begin a movement with the purpose of giving apes the same legal rights as children and mentally retarded adults.
		The authors of this project agree, but believe this is a start that has solid evidence which supports these apes being so close to humans that they may be considered as such.
		The Great Ape Project is an inspiring and inspired collection of articles by 28 scholars in the sciences and humanities, writing from many different perspectives including anthropology, psychology, ethology, and ethics.
	www.psyeta.org /hia/vol8/tgap.html (1656 words)

	Nations to stand against trade in Great Apes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a very important week, not just for great apes, but for the people who live near them, the countries that are their homes, and everyone who works to conserve and protect them.
		Great apes are very special animals - their intelligence and compassion, their similarity to us, and their keystone role in forest ecosystems all make it imperative that we protect and preserve them.
		After decades of work to conserve the great apes, with many organisations, large and small, giving them the highest priority, all but a handful of tiny populations were still in decline.
	www.bornfree.org.uk /primate/greatapes.shtml (1078 words)

	Great Ape Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, psychologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.
		Once rights are established, GAP would demand the release of great apes from captivity; currently 3,100 are held in the U.S., including 1,280 in biomedical research.
		The book highlights findings that support the capacity of great apes to possess rationality and self-consciousness, and the ability to be aware of themselves as distinct entities with a past and future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Ape_Project (377 words)

	Great Ape Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Great ape populations are declining at an alarming rate worldwide.
		Even if isolated populations were to survive, the long-term viability of great apes is in doubt due to their limited numbers and the fragmentation of their habitat.
		ARAZPA is proud to announce the inclusion of the Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP) amongst its portfolio of priority in-situ conservation projects, and invites its member institutions lend their support to this worthy campaign.
	www.arazpa.org.au /conservation_graspcampaign.htm (854 words)

	spiked \| A Great Aping of humans’ rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Great Ape Project, founded in 1993 by an international group of academics and researchers, calls for great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans) to be welcomed into a ‘community of equals’ with humans, and that they be granted three basic rights.
		Apes have a passive relationship to the world: they use the tools and resources that are to hand; they live in the same way year after year, millions of years after millions of years.
		Great apes are merely (sophisticated) natural creatures, who are neither immoral or moral, and have no message to give us.
	www.spiked-online.com /index.php?/site/article/384 (1420 words)

	(11/15/99) Should Apes Have Human Rights? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ape family tree has dwindled to a few remaining twigs today, but during the Miocene era (23-5.5 million years ago), it was a thriving, bushy affair, with numerous species in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
		He agrees that great apes appear to have some distinctly human characteristics, such as the much talked about "theory of mind" -- the ability to recognise that someone else may have a different point of view or different knowledge.
		Great ape experiments in Britain and Australia are also a thing of the past.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/9911a/aperights.html (1218 words)

	The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP)
		The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) Partnership launched under UN auspices in 2001 and aims to establish strategies for all regions of Africa and Asia which still have ape populations.
		GRASP mission is to conserve viable, wild populations of every kind of great ape, and to make sure that where they interact with people, those interactions are mutually beneficial and sustainable.
		The problem is that little is known about great ape distributions, densities, and threats at the scales needed to identify those priority populations.
	www.whrc.org /africa/prioritypops (310 words)

	Declaration on Great Apes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Ape Project, founded by Italian philosopher Paola Cavalieri and Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is campaigning to have the United Nations endorse a Declaration on Great Apes.
		The declaration seeks to extend to non-human great apes the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
		The detention of great apes who have not been convicted of any crime or who are not criminally liable should be permitted only where it can be shown that the detention is in their own interests or is necessary to protect the public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Declaration_on_Great_Apes (269 words)

	The Great Ape Project: Interview with President, Michele Stumpe \| Animal Voices
		GAP, which is an idea, a book, and an organization, challenges a traditional boundary separation between humans and other animals.
		While some scientists and scholars argue that inclusion of the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang-utans) is the first step toward moral equality for all animals, others worry that The Great Ape project might actually reinforce the species boundary by suggesting that inclusion only be granted to those who are "like us".
		Still others believe that the inclusion of great apes within the moral community should be the ultimate goal, an end unto itself.
	www.animalvoices.ca /shows/michele_stumpe (261 words)

	Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
		Backers of this crusade, known as the Great Ape Project, argue that because all great apes have certain "indicators of humanhood"-they are self-aware, have distinct personalities, form deep emotional attachments, are intelligent and have rudimentary linguistic abilities-and are genetically similar to humans, they should be given at least some of the legal rights humans enjoy.
		He agrees that great apes appear to have some distinctly human characteristics, such as the much talked about "theory of mind"-the ability to recognise that someone else may have a different point of view or different knowledge.
		New Zealand has never experimented on great apes, and the 28 chimps and six orang-utans that live there are reportedly well looked after.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-02/NS-SGAB-100299.php (1142 words)

	Lawyers seek rights for great apes March 19, 2000 Seattle, Washington
		The ape project is part of a much larger movement whose goal is to win legal standing for many kinds of animals.
		The lawyers have chosen to start their movement with four apes, the chimpanzee, gorilla, bonobos and orangutans, because they are genetically very similar to humans and therefore probably have the best chance of winning in court.
		The lawyers working for the project in the US are currently working on issues such as whether an ape could be sworn in as a witness.
	www.wminteractive.org /Articles/wa3-19.htm (434 words)

	marks
		Animal Rights activists started up The Great Ape Project in 1993 with the goal of generating worldwide support for the extension of human rights to the apes, specifically those of life, liberty and freedom from torture.
		If the answer to either of those questions is yes, then you may consider holding the Great Ape Project accountable for the fact that the research to address that question is currently not being undertaken, while millions of humans are suffering from the disease.
		Apes and monkeys have indeed died in biomedical contexts, but I am glad to have the vaccines against polio and hepatitis, as well as other diseases, that were thereby made possible.
	www.aaanet.org /press/an/1206/marks.html (1018 words)

	Bushmeat Project; Save the Great Apes; Chimps and Gorillas
		The Great Ape Project International has been a leader fostering international awareness and concern for our great ape relatives; consider signing the Declaration on Great Apes or reviewing their link list.
		The Canadian Great Ape Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing conservation strategies that work for the great apes, as well as the local people.
		The Ipassa-Mingouli Project (in French) is to preserve a primeval forest in the Ivindo River basin in Gabon, to assist in sustainable logging, and promote social and economic development in the area.
	bushmeat.net /links.html (1720 words)

	The Bwindi-Impenetrable Great Ape Project
		The Bwindi-Impenetrable Great Ape Project (BIGAPE) was begun in 1996 in Bwindi-Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda.
		The research project's central goal is a better understanding of the ecological relationship between the park's populations of mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).
		The project was begun after a 1995 visit to the park showed that it had the potential for conducting research on both chimpanzees and gorillas
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~stanford/bigape.html (2139 words)

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		Although we we cannot say with certainty that no other non-human animals are self-aware, rational, or otherwise endowed with the chararteristics of personhood, the tremendous complexity of great apes’ lives, including their ability to communicate, their social structures and emotional repertoires, are now well-known and scientifically established.
		Recognition of non-human apes’ constitutional interests would conceivably have an indirect benefit for apes in their natural habitat: the incentive to capture free-living apes, at least for the purpose of sale to dealers within the United States, would be removed.
		The Great Ape Project defines a sanctuary as an institution where the needs, interests and rights of the apes come first, and where the facilities, long-term financing, expertise and resources necessary to satisfy those needs, interests and rights are provided.
	www.personhood.org /personhood/lawreview/fn.html (9595 words)

	Great Ape Survival Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In conserving and guaranteeing a future for the great apes we will also be tackling the poverty and environmental degradation which is blighting the lives of the people in Africa, Sumatra and Borneo where the great apes live, " he said.
		I believe that this will be a most important step to halt the rapid decline of great ape populations as a result, in particular, of the ape meat trade and illegal logging".
		It is also to raise awareness of the plight of the great apes among the governments and citizens of their range states.
	www.bornfree.org.uk /primate/grasp.htm (1367 words)

	UNEP - Great Apes Survival Project - GRASP
		Recognising that conservation is apolitical, the three-day workshop concluded that global interest in saving gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos from extinction could play an important role in the reconstruction of the DRC after a years of bloody conflicts involving armies from half a dozen neighbouring countries.
		Uppermost in their mind was the development potential inherent in natural populations of great apes - DRC was the first nation to successfully develop gorilla tourism back in the 1970s and is eager to welcome ape enthusiasts again once their security can be assured.
		v Strengthening of existing laws protecting great apes and improved awareness among law enforcement agencies and the courts was called for by a legal commission at the workshop.
	www.unep.org /grasp/Information_Material/PR_sept02.asp (790 words)

	FCCB - Great Ape Aging Project
		The Great Ape Aging Project involves noninvasive monitoring of health, cognition, and behavior of the oldest great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) in research facilities and zoological gardens.
		Information on the great apes is especially important with regard to understanding human aging, because apes resemble humans-- genetically, biologically, and psychologically more than any other kind of animal.
		Most of the elderly great apes in America are enrolled in the Great Ape Aging Project, and funding from the National Institute on Aging has provided partial support for some of the oldest apes.
	www.agingapes.org /greatapeagingproject.html (164 words)

	EXPANDING The Great Ape Project - Fall/Winter 1995/1996 Poultry Press
		Based on the wealth of evidence, the great apes in particular--gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans--have been singled out as having capacities which make it clear that the moral boundary we draw between them and ourselves must be abolished.
		While focusing specifically on the great apes, this book suggests that extending the moral community to include them could be the beginning of a larger break in the species barrier.
		Yet many animal advocates fear that the great ape project, exciting as it is, reinforces the elitism that has caused so much havoc and cruelty in the world: humans are on top, the great apes are sort of beside and sort of below us, some other mammals follow.
	www.upc-online.org /expand.html (1486 words)

	A Conversation with Peter Singer, Part I
		If we were to accomplish that, and people were to accept that all species of great apes are not items of property, but are beings with rights, equals, if you like, persons in the full sense, both legally and morally, that would be a historic expansion of that community of equals.
		People who see the great apes on film or hear reports of their signing can recognize themselves and recognize the interests and desires of the apes as rather like theirs.
		Secondly, we are not embedded in a culture that ruthlessly exploits the great apes in a large-scale way--as we are embedded in a culture that exploits pigs and chickens and so on.
	members.fortunecity.com /njurundakobran/singer1.html (3643 words)

	The Evidence Site: David McCord, Can Apes Testify?
		The Great Ape Project, a part of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, hopes to present an ape to testify, via sign language or a voice synthesizer, in support of a claim that apes have fundamental legal rights, including the right to liberty.
		Some scientists doubt that such apes are really thinking and speaking on their own, but reading the book Next of Kin (written by chimp language researcher Roger Fouts) should convince any fairminded observer that specially-trained chimps do indeed gain more than minimal competence in a humanly-understandable language.
		The second problem relates to the apes’ still limited ability to communicate: a witness has to be competent not only for direct exam, but also for cross.
	www.law.umich.edu /thayer/mccape.htm (652 words)

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