To Avoid Adverse Ruling, Yerkes Agrees Not to Export Chimpanzees and let Full Case Be Heard
Yesterday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia held a three-hour hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction, filed May 9,…
Emory Yerkes and USFWS Hold Off Controversial Export of Chimps
A federal judge in Washington D.C. will decide the future of 7 captive chimpanzees at Emory Yerkes’ National Primate Research Center on or before September 1, 2016. On Tuesday, NEAVS and its…
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Approves Yerkes Chimpanzee Export Abroad
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Approves Yerkes Chimpanzee Export to Unaccredited U.K. Zoo Despite U.S. and Worldwide Opposition BOSTON, April 25, 2016 -- Today the New England Anti-Vivisection…
NEAVS Announces Fish and Wildlife Service Retracts Yerkes Permit Decision
BOSTON, Dec. 2, 2015 -- In response to a lawsuit filed Monday by a coalition of animal welfare organizations, sanctuaries, and individuals – led by the New England Anti-Vivisection Society…
FWS Sued by NEAVS et al. Over Permit to Yerkes Research Center to Ship Chimpanzees Overseas
BOSTON, Nov. 30, 2015 -- New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) a Boston-based, international animal advocacy organization, and its coalition of chimpanzee experts and sanctuaries, filed a…
On Heels Of Endangered Protections, Yerkes Permit To Ship Chimpanzees Overseas Meets Opposition
New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), a national animal advocacy organization, and its coalition, submitted comments to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) opposing an export permit for…
USDA Seeks Comments for Better Standards to Promote the Psychological Well-Being of Primates in Labs
USDA seeks comment on Rulemaking Petition submitted by NEAVS and co-petitioners promoting the psychological well-being of all species of primates in labs that is consistent with NIH standards for…
Autopsy study reinforces need to get chimpanzees to sanctuary
Chimpanzee autopsy study reinforces urgent need for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to define and implement retirement criteria to get chimpanzees to sanctuary Oct. 22, 2012 –…
Autopsy study reinforces need to get chimpanzees to sanctuary
Chimpanzee autopsy study reinforces urgent need for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to define and implement retirement criteria to get chimpanzees to sanctuary Oct. 22, 2012 –…
NIH must retire chimpanzees not needed for research to sanctuary
Rulemaking Petition holds government accountable Sept. 27, 2012 – Boston, Mass. – Following the National Institutes of Health decision to retire 110 chimpanzees in laboratories and…
NIH Needs To Make Good On Chimpanzees’ Psychological Well-Being
NIH Needs To Make Good On Chimpanzees’ Psychological Well-Being BOSTON, MA—(February 2012)—The Bioethics of Great Ape Well-Being: Psychiatric Injury and Duty of Care, recently…
Chimpanzees and Bad Research: It’s in the Genes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON, MA (January 2012)—A new paper, “Lessons from Chimpanzee-Based Research on Human Disease: the Implications of Genetic Differences” published in…
NEAVS/Project R&R responds to IOM chimpanzee report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Chimps Hear the Good News: IOM Concludes “…chimpanzees [are] not necessary…” BOSTON, MA—(December 15, 2011)—The…
Alamogordo Chimpanzee Reprieve
2011 is off to a hopeful start for 186 chimpanzees at Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF), who have been granted a reprieve from transfer to a Texas laboratory for use in invasive research. According…
Great Ape Protection Act Introduced
Boston, MA―March 5, 2009―The Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA), H.R. 1326 was introduced today in Congress. Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S.…
Chimpanzees Suffer PTSD Like Humans
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) afflicts chimpanzees from laboratories in the same way as it does human trauma survivors, according to a paper published this week in vol. 9(1) of the Journal of…
Federal Bill Introduced to End Invasive Research on Chimpanzees
Animal Organizations and Scientists Urge Congress to Protect Our Closest Living Relatives A bi-partisan group in Congress today introduced The Great Ape Protection Act to end invasive research and…
Chicago Event Spotlights Chimpanzee Research and Rescue
Presentation Features Gloria Grow, of PBS’ Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History March 1, 2007 (Boston, MA)—Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories, a…
Oldest Known Chimpanzee in U.S. Lab to Retire After Half Century
Boston, MA—October 12, 2006—She has lived in a laboratory for over a half century. Gwen, a 54-year-old chimpanzee—believed to be the oldest chimpanzee held for research in the…
World Animal Day
Campaign Learns of Three More Deaths Boston, MA—October 3, 2006—Following an appeal by many of the world’s chimpanzee experts, as well as inquiries from U.S. Senate offices, the…
Experts Call Upon Labs to Release Elder Chimpanzees
Boston, MA―September 5, 2006―While the American public believes that chimpanzees used for research for more than ten years should be retired, 12 elder chimpanzees have remained in U.S.…
A Chimpanzee’s Life: 52 Years in a Lab
Boston, MA—August 29, 2006—Wenka, 52 years old, was born in the nation’s first chimpanzee laboratory in Orange Park, Florida, in 1954. She was sold as a “pet” and…
Poll reveals: Americans agree
Boston, MA——June 20, 2006—Nearly three-fourths of the American public (71%) believes that a chimpanzee used for more than 10 years in research should be retired. Preliminary…
NEAVS Announces Website Dedicated to Ending Chimpanzee Research in the U.S.
ReleaseChimps.org exposes the research life of chimpanzees, provides activist tools to build public support, and shares stories of rescue May 9, 2006, Boston, MA—Project R&R: Release and…
Campaign to End Chimpanzee Research in the U.S. Launches April 20th in Atlanta
Poll shows overwhelming support for release of chimpanzees used more than 10 years April 5, 2006 (Boston, MA)―One of the nation’s oldest animal protection organizations is headed to…