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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. This would extend what the project calls the "community of equals" to chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans. ImageMetadata File history File links Monkeyinbilebearcage. ...
The logo of the Great Ape Project, which is campaigning for a Declaration on Great Apes. ...
Greg Avery (born 1963), also known as Greg Jennings and Greg Harrison, is a British animal rights activist and co-founder of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a controversial animal-testing company with bases in Huntingdon, England, and...
David Barbarash is the North American press officer for the Animal Liberation Front. ...
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Rod Coronado Rodney Adam Coronado is an eco-anarchist, animal rights activist, convicted arsonist and the editor of the environmentalist Earth First! Journal. ...
Barry Horne Barry Horne was a British animal rights activist who died of kidney failure in Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester on November 5, 2001, following a series of four hunger strikes while serving an 18-year sentence for planting incendiary devices. ...
Ronnie Lee is a British animal rights activist, and founder of the Animal Liberation Front. ...
Keith Mann is a British animal-rights campaigner, believed to be a senior Animal Liberation Front activist. ...
Ingrid Newkirk (born July 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, author, and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the worlds largest animal rights organization. ...
Alex Pacheco is an animal rights activist and co-founder (and former chairman) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). ...
Robin Webb appearing on Channel 4s Dispatches Robin Webb is the press officer for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in the UK. He was previously a member of the ruling council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), and a director of Animal Aid. ...
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Animal Aid is the United Kingdoms largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977. ...
Beagles removed by British ALF activists from a testing laboratory owned by the Boots Group. ...
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is a pressure group based near Highbury Corner in North London, United Kingdom that campaigns peacefully against vivisection. ...
The Great Ape Project aims to expand moral equality to great apes, and to foster greater understanding of them by humans. ...
The Justice Department is a militant animal-rights organization, set up in Britain in 1993, and active there and in the United States. ...
For the SI prefix, see Peta People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. ...
SPEAK is a British animal rights campaign that aims to end animal experimentation and vivisection in the UK. The campaign was born out of Stop Primate Experimentation at Cambridge (SPEAC), [1] a campaign set up to oppose the construction at the University of Cambridge of a new primate testing facility...
A monkey inside Huntingdon Life Sciences in the United States [1] Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) is an international animal-rights campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europes largest contract animal-testing laboratory, based in Huntingdon and Occold, England, and New Jersey in the United States. ...
Viva!, or Vegetarians International Voice For Animals, Founded by Juliet Gellatley in 1995, is an animal-rights based organisation which promotes vegetarianism and veganism. ...
The logo of the Great Ape Project, which is campaigning for a Declaration on Great Apes. ...
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Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur. ...
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is a controversial animal-testing company based in Huntingdon, England, and New Jersey in the United States. ...
Speciesism is the concept that individuals should be accorded rights based on their species membership rather than their actual capacities. ...
Etymologically, vivisection refers to the dissection of, or any cutting or surgery upon, a living animal. ...
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Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ) (February 15, 1748 – June 6, 1832) was an English gentleman, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. ...
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born October 30, 1945) is a British philosopher and international authority on animal rights, currently professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. ...
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Richard D. Ryder (born 1940) is a British psychologist who, after performing psychology experiments on animals, began to speak out against the practice, and became one of the pioneers of the modern animal liberation and animal rights movements. ...
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The Great Ape Project aims to expand moral equality to great apes, and to foster greater understanding of them by humans. ...
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Type Species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often abbreviated to chimp, is the common name for two species in the genus Pan. ...
Binomial name Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929 The Bonobo (Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee, is one of the two species comprising the chimpanzee genus, Pan. ...
Type Species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the primates, is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ...
Type Species Simia pygmaeus Linnaeus, 1760 Species Pongo pygmaeus Pongo abelii Orangutans (also spelled orang utan, orang-utan, sometimes incorrectly orangutang) are two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair native to Malaysia and Indonesia. ...
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 Iron Maiden of Nuremberg is an infamous and rarely used torture device. ...
Right to life
The declaration states that members of the community of equals, which includes humans, may not be killed except in certain strictly defined circumstances such as self-defense. Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ...
Protection of individual liberty Members of the community of equals are not to be deprived of their liberty, and are entitled to immediate release where there has been no form of due process. 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. In such cases there must be a right of appeal, either directly or through an advocate, to a judicial tribunal. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes...
Prohibition of torture The declaration prohibits the torture, defined as the deliberate infliction of severe pain on any great ape, whether wantonly or because of a perceived benefit to others. The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg is an infamous and rarely used torture device. ...
Pain is an unpleasant sensation which may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and which may have physical and emotional components. ...
References Declaration on Great Apes, Great Ape Project
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