The fate of 450 medical-research chimpanzees owned or supported by the U.S. government will soon be decided. Most will likely be sent to sanctuaries, but 50 may be kept in captivity and used for medical experiments in decades to come.
For almost 100 years, chimpanzees have been used in biomedical and behavioral research in this country, the last industrialized country to experiment on our next of kin. The end of using chimpanzees as nameless test subjects is near
The National Institutes of Health should retire most of its chimps that are currently living in research facilities, according to a working group put together by the NIH to look at the future need for biomedical research on chimps.
Despite more and more companies taking a stand against the use of chimpanzees in advertising and entertainment, Great Clips has chosen to film a commercial using a trained chimpanzee. See the link below for information on how to contact Great Clips and register your concerns.
Save the Chimps welcomes the recent NIH decision to cease experimentation on 110 chimpanzees currently residing at New Iberia Primate Research Center, but disagrees with the decision to relocate 100 of the chimpanzees to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
Walt Disney Studios announced the World Premiere of Disneynature’s “Chimpanzee” will be Friday, April 13th at Walt Disney World. Dr. Jane Goodall will be in attendance as well as film co-directors Alastair Fothergill (Disneynature’s “African Cats” and “Earth”) and Mark Linfield (“Earth”).
The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabale-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa's most pristine forests and a population of "naïve" chimpanzees with so little exposure to humans that the curious apes investigate the conservationists who study them rather than run away.
The debate over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research got some international attention over the past week, with programs in the US and Canada covering the issue—and gaining rare inside access to two different chimpanzee research labs.