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(GAPNews) GAP releases new book: Great Ape Project Census

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

 

January 9, 2004

 

 

 

GREAT APE PROJECT RELEASES CENSUS BOOK, REVEALS 3,100 CAPTIVE APES IN U.S.

 

 

 

Portland, Oregon – After two years of research, record-keeping and volunteer

reports, the Great Ape Project today released the Great Ape Project Census:

Recognition for the Uncounted, a book that stands as the first comprehensive

tally of the captive chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos in the United

States.

 

 

 

The Great Ape Project Census reveals over 3,100 great apes living in captivity,

ranging from modern zoos and sanctuaries to squalid carnivals and cruel

laboratories. The Census reflects as much personal information as possible about

each great ape, including name, age, sex, location and whether he or she was

born in captivity or captured in the wild.

 

 

 

The Great Ape Project Census comes a decade after the publication of The Great

Ape Project, the ground-breaking book that helped revolutionize mankind’s

consideration of great apes. The Great Ape Project Census includes photos and

profiles of numerous great apes, along with essays by noted primatologists and

experts such as Jane Goodall, Birute Galdikas, Marc Bekoff, Francine Patterson

and Roger and Deborah Fouts. Great Ape Project president Peter Singer

contributed the foreword.

 

 

 

“There has been a dramatic change in the thinking of many people about great

apes,†Singer wrote, “but this has yet to be adequately reflected in changes

in the law, in the moral status we recognize them as having, and in the

conditions in which they live. Perhaps this book will bring those changes a step

closer.â€

 

 

 

The inspiration for the Great Ape Project Census came from the human census

being conducted in the U.S. at the turn of the century. The Census had four

basic goals: 1.) identify all great apes in the U.S.; 2.) report the conditions

in which they live; 3.) increase public awareness; and 4.) identify sanctuaries

that might be able to provide permanent refuge for those in need.

 

 

 

The Census found great apes in 37 states – including several, such as

Connecticut, where they were not previously known to exist – and a staggering

1,280 in biomedical research.

 

 

 

The Great Ape Project Census is priced at $14.95 and available on-line at the

Great Ape Project website (www.greatapeproject.org) or at select bookstores in

the Portland area.

 

 

 

For more information, please contact:

 

 

 

Great Ape Project

 

1-503-222-5755

 

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