NIH Announces 110 Chimpanzees to be Permanently Retired

Please read and decide.

Last year, the Institute of Medicine, at the request of the National Institutes of Health, conducted a study to determine the necessity of using Chimpanzees in medical experimentation.

The study concluded that current experimental methodologies have rendered the Chimpanzee as unnecessary in most research settings.

This week, the NIH has announced it would retire and relocate 110 Chimpanzees currently held for experimentation.

However, Primate Freedom Project is very concerned that 100 of this same group will be relocated, not to a sanctuary, but to another experimental facility (Texas Biomedical) that receives federal funding for Chimpanzee experiments.

Living conditions for the 100 will be typical laboratory standards rather than a sanctuary lifestyle of feeling the warmth of the sun, grass under their feet and social interaction with others of their own species.

The CHIMP Act of 2000 clearly states that federally owned Chimpanzees no longer used in research are to be retired to Chimp Haven, the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

Please call and write to the NIH director, Dr. Francis Collins, and urge him to permanently retire the 100 Chimpanzees bound for Texas Biomedical to a real sanctuary. Contact Dr. Collins at francis.collins@nih.gov AND 301-496-2433.

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