The Spanish NGO Great Ape Project has asked both the UN and various UNESCO organizations for help to strengthen the protection of the apes. big monkeysa category that includes chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.
This organization requested the United Nations to prepare a report. Declaration of Fundamental Rights for these primates, in which Right to life, protection of individual freedoms and prohibition of torture.
“To the objection that chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans cannot assert their rights within the community, we reply that their interests and rights must be protected by human guardians. as well as protecting the interests of minors and mentally disabled people “From our own species,” he defends the NGO.
Similarly, they have requested various UNESCO bodies, including director general Audrey Azoulay, to declare and protect great apes as the “living heritage of humanity”.
Great Ape echoes the statements made by the UNESCO director-general following his visit to Rwanda at the beginning of the month, in which he assured: The “situation of these species in the world” is “critical”We thus call on the international community to take measures to prevent some species from “extinct forever”.
“The preservation of these cousins of man, Only 2% of DNA separates us Azoulay emphasized that this is a collective responsibility.
In particular, this NGO sent requests to the Spanish National Cooperation Commission with UNESCO, the European Office of the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Secretary-General, the United Nations Communications Division and the United Nations Science Division. or Head of the African World Heritage Unit.
“These are just some of the international organizations that are being asked to provide. great ape bill of rightsand the fact that both captive and free populations have become fully protected species by UNESCO fully fulfills the directors’ promises: Your protection is a collective responsibility“, emphasizes the Great Ape Project.
In this context, Pedro Pozas, executive director of the Great Ape Project, insists that people should: “Openly confront the kinship humans share with great apes“This means we even share cognitive abilities.” “We must also realize that we share life and the planet with living hominids, from whom we evolved parallel to our own evolutionary histories,” he adds.
Threats to chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos include: plunder and destruction of habitat, poaching, expansion of livestock farming or black marketsThe second stems from the rise of social networks and the trend towards purchasing a primate as a pet, a dangerous trend spreading among elites.
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