- GAP UK
- Founded 1994
- 8th national chapter
Great Ape Project UK
Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary became the UK's 8th national chapter of the Great Ape Project, an international movement working to extend basic moral and legal rights to chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans and bonobos.
What GAP stands for
The Great Ape Project was founded in 1994 by philosophers, scientists and welfare advocates. Its central argument is that chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans and bonobos share enough of our cognitive and emotional life that they deserve three basic rights: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
Wales Ape & Monkey Sanctuary became GAP's 8th national chapter and operates a strict no-way-back-to-zoo policy: any great ape that arrives here lives out its life at the sanctuary, and is never returned to a zoo or transferred to another commercial facility.
The facts
1994
GAP founded
8th
UK chapter
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Apes returned to zoos
Life
Length of stay
GAP Sanctuary Europe
The sanctuary is also the official European sanctuary partner of GAP.