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

What’s New at Project R&R

-Urge NIH to adopt Council of Councils recommendations and retire all chimpanzees to sanctuary
Send your comments by March 23 to support transferring funding for labs to sanctuaries that provide humane and better care to chimpanzees. Read more

-The BBC interviews Dr. Theodora Capaldo, psychologist and NEAVS president, on trauma chimpanzees face in labs
Psychological and physical suffering takes its toll. Read more

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