| "Maybe
the day will come that the rest
of the animal reign will find
again its rights which could
never be removed from it without
any tyranny. French people has
already realized that the tanned
skin is not a reason to abandon
without appeal a human being to
the whims of a persecutor. Maybe
at last we would notice one day
that the number of legs, the
pilosity of the skin or the
sacrum bone extremity are also
inadequate reasons to abandon a
sensitive creature at the same
lot. Which other thing should
draw the demarcation? Could it be
the faculty of reason, or the
faculty of the language? But one
horse that reached maturity or
one dog is, without comparison,
an animal more social and
reasonable than a newborn of one
day, one week or even one month !
But, suppose that they are
different, to what it can be of
use for us ? The question is not:
can they reason ? Nor: can they
speak ? But: can they suffer ?" |
This quotation of Jeremy
Bentham, who represents one of the
founding thought of the utilitarian
philosophy, illustrate well our vision
and the reason of our fight.
Young
macaque, victim of the traffic
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Mankind became torturer.
His action is not one of a natural
predator which regulate the ecosystem but,
on contrary, a total and irrational
destruction of the nature and its
creatures, to the ephemera name of the
profit.
For a long time, sensitive
to animal future and suffering, we have
chosen to put an end to our studies in
order to be actors in the animal
preservation.
We are more than motivated,
and fully conscious about the difficulty
and the limits of our action, but we want
to devote our lives and our force to this
cause.
This is an aim born
from an inalienable vocation rooted deep
in us.
First, we have been the
helpless witnesses of the enormous
slaughter of the animal species. A
psychological and physical slaughter.
At the same time,
spectators of the indifference of many
people to the animal suffering. That is
not telling by a voice, dear to human
being, but the bellows are inscribed in
our spirits.
Agilis
female in a sanctuary
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This position was not the
right one for us, thus we have entered
the world of animal Protection thanks to
the French shelters.
The plenitude felt in this
work was a real revelation for us which
has bowled over our lives.
Another
captive macaque in the Garo Hills
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Word of the
President
"At
this time, that several governmental
organizations and NGOs, begin at the end to pull
the alarm bell on the general state of our planet,
I stay dubitative about the real impact that
reprensents on the Great Apes populations which
stay decimated and victims of something like a
genocide orchestrated under the benevolent eye of
the big international firms.
Either
it is for the extraction of some ores, the coltan,
oil, or the palm oil culture, it represents
nowadays a threat of extinction of some species,
notably of the Gibbon in Asia.
And
the conservation, even if some organizations,
like the GRASP, that had a first meeting in
Kinshasa on September 7 of 2005, begin to
organize a coherent fight; even if some NGOs as
Kalaweit in Indonesia make a real good work; the
conservation lack of means and stay a source of
deficiencies, in several regions and notably
about the Gibbon.
That
is why the SVAA was created on April 18 of 2006.
It
is the acknowledgement of a legacy that we prefer
to no have, but it is equally like other NGOs, a
hope for the Gibbon populations and their habitat.
To
put it in a nutshell, a hope for the preservation
and the respect of life and biodiversity."
Before
that the forest become a desert without life...
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