The Great Ape Project ( GAP ), 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 .

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 .

Click here to sign the declaration

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