Help release Wenka and all elder* chimpanzees languishing in U.S. labs.

Sign the petition for their release from labs and placement into sanctuary.

Wenka is a frail 57-year-old chimpanzee, held at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who deserves sanctuary. Her time for the comfort and safety of sanctuary is running out.

While Project R&R is committed to getting all chimpanzees out of all U.S. labs, your immediate help is needed to secure Wenka’s release, along with that of all of the other elders in captivity—most if not all of whom have been in a lab for 40 years or more. Many have spent their entire lives in a lab enduring multiple procedures or being repeatedly “bred” to make more babies for research. Some were captured as infants in Africa.

The Chimpanzee Elders Who Need Our Help (ages as of 2011)

• Wenka, age 57—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Gwen, age 54—New Iberia Research Center (deceased)
• Flo, age 54—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (government owned)
• Cheeta, age 54—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Lulu, age 54—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Maxine, age 54—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Karen, age 53—New Iberia Research Center, LA
• Susie, age 52—Primate Foundation of Arizona, AZ (deceased)
• Billy Ray, age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA (released)
• Guy, age 51—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (deceased)
• James, age 51—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (government owned)
• Julius, age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA
• Lady Bird, age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA
• Sandy, age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA
• Walter B., age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA (not listed in current census)
• Clay, age 51—New Iberia Research Center, LA (not listed in current census)
• Martha, age 51—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Mary, age 51—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Kirby, age 50—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (government owned)
• Harriet, age 49—Primate Foundation of Arizona, AZ (deceased)
• Reba, age 48—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA (deceased)
• Jenda, age 48—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA (deceased)
• Jake, age 48—New Iberia Research Center, LA (deceased)
• Henry, age 49—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (government owned)
• Winny, age 49—Alamogordo Primate Facility, NM (government owned)
• Pierre, age 49—M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX
• Gigi, age 49—M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX
• Happy, age 49—M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX
• Beleka, age 49—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Iyk, age 49—Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA
• Polly, age 48—M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX
• Rhoda, age 48—M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX