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LCRP saving chimps update
Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection saving orphaned chimps In the IPPL March Newsletter, there is a story about an organization…
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Summer Time in Summerville
Happy first day of summer from the gibbons and otters at IPPL. (Happy first day of winter to our friends…
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Happy Father’s Day from IPPL’s Gibbon Dads
BLACKIESNOWYGARYZIGGY MAUIHappy Father's Day from IPPLPALU-PALUNICHOLAS Yes! I want to adopt a gibbon!
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Sanctuary Caregiver Appreciation Day
We are lucky to have a fabulous team of caregivers here at IPPL! Today is animal sanctuary caregiver day, which…
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A Loris Named Shirley
We all know that Dr. Shirely McGreal has been working for over 45 years to preserve and protect primates. She…
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World Environment Day
IPPL is recognizing World Environment Day today, June 5, 2019. Part of protecting primates is protecting the planet. Whether that…
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IPPL’s Featured Gibbon Paen
Meet Paen Paen has a unique personality and can be very playful In the March Newsletter, IPPL’s Featured Gibbon…
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IPPL celebrates Earth Day today and every day
Happy Earth Day from IPPL! Earth Day gives us a special day every year to celebrate the planet that we…
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Invitation to IPPL event honoring Ape Action Africa
Join us for a special IPPL event honoring Ape Action Africa IPPL staff, and local residents and supporters from anywhere…
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Ape Action Africa to the rescue
From a difficult start in life to thriving Imagine you are at home with your family and all of a…
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Thanks to our volunteers at IPPL
Thanks to the Volunteers at IPPL This week is National Volunteer Week so we couldn’t miss the opportunity to brag…
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Friends, fun, and food for IPPL gibbons thanks to a special visitor
Friends, Fun, and Food for IPPL’s Gibbons A longtime friend of IPPL and Founder of The Talkin’ Monkeys Project, Debbie Misotti,…
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Extra! Extra! Do we have news for you
IPPL News is back with its March 2019 issue! We have lots of exciting stories for our supporters and primate…
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Protecting primates together
The last couple of weeks have been extra fun for the staff, otters, and gibbons! We’ve been fortunate to have…
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Gibbon Songs of Gratitude to Crescent Homes
Recently, representatives from Crescent Homes visited the IPPL sanctuary. They presented a very special gift made through their GIVE Program…
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Farewell Satu
It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our beloved Satu the otter. Satu, whose name means…
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Farewell Uma
Once again, we shared the sad news that another IPPL gibbon had left us. Uma, who was born September 5,…
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EVENT: Ensuring a Future for All Primates
We invite anyone who will be in the Houston area on October 19th to attend this incredible dinner at the…
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Blackie the Gibbon’s Guilty Pleasure
By Jennifer Buchanan, Lead Animal Caregiver Jennifer Buchanan As an animal caregiver at IPPL, part of my job includes food…
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Paen’s Journey to Becoming a Yogi
By Jaclyn Trayte, Vet Tech & Animal Caregiver Vet Tech & Caregiver Jaclyn Trayte Paen is one of the sweetest…
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Enriching the Lives of Our Residents
By Jaimie King, Animal Caregiver Caregiver Jaimie King If one thing working with primates has taught me, it’s that being…
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Goodbye, Sweet Bali
We are so sad to inform you that our dear, sweet Bali the otter has passed away. Bali was born…
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IPPL’s Biennial Supporters’ Conference
Butet Sitohang from PROFAUNA in Indonesia. She had the room in tears watching footage of the local markets where primates…
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Farewell E.T.
A Sad Farewell at IPPL Everyone at IPPL is devastated at the loss of our 33 year old gibbon E.T.…
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IPPL Announces New Executive Director
IPPL is thrilled to announce that we have hired a new Executive Director at our sanctuary! Casey Taylor, J.D., comes…
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Farewell Dorothy
February 1, 2016 was a special day for a petite white-handed gibbon named Dorothy. It was the day she arrived…
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URGENT – Animal Rights Conference Attendees – Aug 4-6. You can help the animals at Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand!
HELP SAVE THE ANIMALS AT WILDLIFE FRIENDS FOUNDATION OF THAILAND! If you are at the Animal Rights Conference this weekend…
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Kajal’s Garden
Kajal is the 15 year old daughter of Lisa Schiller, who recently joined IPPL’s Board of Directors. Her dog, Chewie,…
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Happy 33rd Birthday, Elizabeth!
It was in March 1985 that tiny Elizabeth Gibbon, then just nine months old, reached IPPL from the now-closed Silver…
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Endangered Species Day
Endangered Species You May Never Have Heard Of! May 19, 2017, was ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY. If you asked someone who…
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Farewell Helen
Friday, March 24, 2017 was a sad day at IPPL. It was the day our beloved gibbon, Helen, left us.…
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An Otter Love Story!
Satu, (“One” in the Malaysia language) came to IPPL in 2009 from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. He had…
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“Pet” Monkey Spotted in Summerville!
For years, IPPL has fought the illegal pet trade that exists around the world. We have also written about the…
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Update from the IPPL CITES team
How the furniture you buy could affect primate conservation Many of the topics being discussed at this CITES Conference of…
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A historic moment for monkeys, Sep. 28, 2016
A historic moment for monkeys, September 28, 2016 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is an international…
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Farewell Kendra
Sweet Kendra was born at a Florida tourist attraction in 2000. She, her younger brother and parents lived there until…
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Celebrate GivingTuesday by giving back!
Dear IPPL Friend, A frightened infant gibbon is suddenly orphaned, by the shooting of her mother, snatched by human hands,…
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Happy Howl-o-Ween!
Our animal care staff have again come up with some spook-tacular treats for our gibbons’ annual Halloween veggie feast! Maynard…
Read More Four ways to celebrate International Gibbon Day
Tomorrow, October 24, is International Gibbon Day. And Halloween is just around the corner. That means tomorrow would be a…
Read More Recovering from the rain
Last weekend, South Carolina experienced a “Thousand Year Flood,” as a low pressure system held in place by Hurricane Joaquin…
Read More Painting for Primates 2
IPPL supporters got in touch with their artistic side last Friday at a creative fundraiser that also honored our adorable…
Read More Banana pops
It’s officially fall now, but for the most part it still feels like summer. Lately the gibbons have been enjoying…
Read More All chimpanzees are now endangered
And that’s actually good news! As of yesterday, all chimpanzees in the U.S. are now classified as “endangered” under the…
Read More Speaking up for lab monkeys
Today is the last day to submit a comment in support of a Rulemaking Petition to improve conditions for U.S.…
Read More Do the Funky Gibbon!
How would you like to dance your way to primate protection? It’s easy if you do the Funky Gibbon: here’s…
Read More Invisible apes
We recently received an interesting book from (and written by) Dr. John Steckley, a Canadian anthropology professor who is primarily an…
Read More Look for IPPL at animal rights conference
IPPL is again a Silver Sponsor of the Animal Rights National Conference, an annual bonanza of practical information, inspiring speakers,…
Read More From chimpanzees to gibbons
Renate Winch knows a lot about chimpanzees. She even knows the secret to hippopotamus bliss (scratch them behind the ears).…
Read More Homegrown peppers
Hot, hot, hot! It’s hot here in South Carolina, but don’t worry Whoop-Whoop, our homegrown sweet peppers are NOT! Whoop-Whoop…
Read More A children’s book on chimpanzees in Cameroon
At IPPL, we take pride in helping fund dozens of grassroots primate sanctuaries and rescue centers in countries where primates…
Read More You can help monkeys in research!
[Update 6/29/15: The deadline has been extended to August 31, 2015, 11:59 PM! There’s still time to file a comment…
Read More We’re keeping our cool!
Yes, we finally have a new cooler! Thanks to the success of our crowdfunding campaign on LoveAnimals.org, we have been…
Read More Thank you for loving animals!
This week we wrapped up our crowdfunding campaign on LoveAnimals.org: we have reached—and even surpassed—our $4,000 goal! Now we will be…
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Gibbon art DIY for World Environment Day
Today is World Environment Day, designated by the United Nations as a day of outreach, a “people’s day” of “doing…
Read More Ape Action Africa: Volunteer update
Ape Action Africa is one of the largest primate sanctuaries on the continent, and IPPL is proud to help support…
Read More Our Boeing volunteers: day after day of caring
On Saturday we were glad to welcome back to the IPPL sanctuary a volunteer team from Boeing. We had a…
Read More How many kinds of primates are there, anyway?
Today is the 10th annual Endangered Species Day, and primates are (unfortunately) prime poster children for it. There are a…
Read More “Chimpanzee funeral” photographer visits IPPL
By now it’s an Internet meme: the photo of a group of chimpanzees lined up silently in self-evident grief at…
Read More Thanks to Costco…
…we have a terrific new “problem” here at the IPPL gibbon sanctuary. Costco has been donating truckloads of fresh fruit…
Read More Happy Earth Day 2015!
It’s the day to get your green on! The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Senator Gaylord…
Read More Talking gibbonish
Gibbons are well known for their vocal expertise. In most species of gibbon, a mated male and female will duet loudly…
Read More Spring has sprung!
At IPPL, we are glad that the bipolar weather of March is behind us, and the warmer weather of April…
Read More Vote and win! Who will be Mia’s prime-mate?
Mia is the newest arrival at our gibbon sanctuary. A charming, fluffy, 23-year-old widow newly retired from Mississippi’s Jackson Zoo, she…
Read More Gabi, the gibbon ambassador
Last week we were delighted to receive a visit from the director of the Gibbon Conservation Center, located in Santa…
Read More It’s the Year of the Gibbon!
The lunar calendar may have just ushered in the Year of the Sheep, but according to the International Union for…
Read More Nothing says Valentine’s Day like a pair of happy gibbons!
Among the apes, gibbons are the best representatives of true love. Shy Cathy (L) fell for handsome Michael as soon…
Read More U.S. primate import statistics for 2014
Here’s the bad news: 1. Imports are up 20 percent. For the second year in a row, primate imports into…
Read More Bioko Island: The next Costa Rica?
With 11 species of primates and large stretches of as-yet-unspoiled forest habitat, Bioko Island (which lies just 20 miles off…
Read More Remembering the Bangkok Six case
Dianne Taylor-Snow has been a wildlife crime investigator and photojournalist for IPPL for 25 years. She’s also a dedicated board…
Read More “Don’t pay too much in taxes!”
“Do you own stock in a non-retirement account? If so, you probably are looking at paying capital gains tax on…
Read More A science field trip to IPPL
When I was elementary school, we got to go on the occasional low-key field trip, like a day hike in…
Read More IPPL’s Small Grants Program is there from the start
For many years, IPPL has worked to locate overseas organizations doing great work below the radar of large funding sources…
Read More More than ready for the Day of Caring 2014
Today is the Day of Caring, a day when thousands of volunteers from local businesses donate their time and talents…
Read More Weeble-wobble pumpkins
Since it’s pumpkin time, our artistic animal care staff came up with a number of creative carvings and presented the…
Read More Farewell to Igor
The spirit of our dear Igor left this world on October 13, 2014. He was well into his 50s and…
Read More The secret lives of the IPPL gibbons
During our Supporters’ Meeting this past April, IPPL’s Animal Care team members shared some candid videos they had taken of…
Read More Sanctuary chimps in the Ebola zone say “Thank you!”
Here’s what we heard yesterday from Bala Amarasekaran, the Founder and Director of the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone:…
Read More Gibbons charm the Mount Pleasant Garden Club
Yesterday, IPPL’s sanctuary hosted the Mount Pleasant Garden Club, which makes monthly visits to notable locations around the Lowcountry that…
Read More Meet our girl Molly!
For several years, Molly Jorges has worked at the C.A.R.E. baboon rehabilitation center in Phalaborwa, South Africa. C.A.R.E. was founded…
Read More Hollywood comes to IPPL
Over the weekend we were delighted to welcome not one, but two bona fide Hollywood actors to the IPPL sanctuary.…
Read More Ebola threatens chimp sanctuary
Humans are not the only ones at risk from Ebola: chimps and gorillas are also susceptible to the deadly virus,…
Read More WikiLeaks confirms IPPL’s role in India’s monkey export ban
An IPPL member recently drew my attention to information about primates on WikiLeaks. In searching the files, I found mainly…
Read More Welcome to the 2014 Animal Rights National Conference
Every year, the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) holds a conference. The program is not limited to issues directly impacting…
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At the Animal Rights National Conference 2014
Each year since 2009, IPPL has been represented at the Animal Rights National Conference, which has been organized in various…
Read More Gus’s birthday pops
OK, I confess: we don’t know Gus’s actual birth date. He was a former pet, and we never received his…
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World Cup Gibbon Training Camp 2014
Our gibbons have World Cup potential, no question. Whoop-Whoop already shows great kicking abilities. We’re just going to have to…
Read More It’s National Eat Your Vegetables Day!
Along the highways leading into Charleston we’ve seen billboards the last couple of months that ask us if we can…
Read More Ape experts at our sanctuary
Say hello to Carol Fleming and her partner Keith Lloyd, two primate pros from the UK who have been spending…
Read More Welcome, Spanky!
Today we accepted a new gibbon at the IPPL sanctuary! Howdy, Spanky! Welcome to IPPL! Shirley (and all of…
Read More The world’s rarest primate
Did you know that the world’s rarest primate is actually a gibbon? The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) is critically endangered.…
Read More Shirley’s birthday bash
Late Tuesday night Shirley arrived back at the office from her most recent travels, so the IPPL staff celebrated yesterday…
Read More Our primate conservation conference 2014, in pictures
This past weekend, we held our 13th biennial Supporters’ Meeting on the grounds of the IPPL sanctuary. We hosted primate…
Read More A tribute to Cyril Rosen
The late Cyril Rosen MBE was the man behind IPPL (UK), which flourished well over three decades from the time…
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