The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act will end the use of chimpanzees in research. Chimpanzees deserve release from laboratories and restitution in sanctuary. Today in the U.S. some 600 chimpanzees are safe in sanctuary – approximately 1,000 are waiting their turn. Chimpanzee research to benefit human health has proven unnecessary and unproductive. Like us, chimpanzees care about family, make choices, laugh, cry, and suffer when their freedom is taken.

What’s New at Project R&R

-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes new protective status for captive chimpanzees
Change would prohibit research on chimpanzees that does not benefit the survival of the species, essentially nearly all past biomedical use. Read more

-Urge NIH to adopt Council of Councils recommendations and retire all chimpanzees to sanctuary
Support transferring funding for labs to sanctuaries that provide humane and better care to chimpanzees. Read more

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