Keeping a strong and steady pace since its introduction March 2009, the Great Ape Protection Act has the support of 149 cosponsors in the House (H.R.1326) and was introduced in the Senate (S.3694) on August 3, 2010. The bill is currently in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Project R&R thanks all our supporters who contacted their legislators. YOUR outreach has led to this ever-growing bi-partisan list of sponsors so critical to help ensure the bill’s success.

» If your Representative is not signed on, ask them to cosponsor the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R.1326).

» If they are a cosponsor, please thank them

» To order legislator postcards, click here.

» To find your legislator, click here.

» Finally, email the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Let them know you no longer want your tax dollars going towards research on great apes. Tell them you want NIH:

  • To retire all government owned/supported chimpanzees currently in U.S. labs to sanctuary; and,

  • To reallocate funding for alternatives, which are more humane, safer and better science.