http://www.releasechimps.org Project R&R aims to end the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research in the United States and secure their permanent retirement in sanctuaries. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:13:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Barbara Boxer (CA), Chairman √ Indicates sponsor or cosponsor of the Great Ape Protection Act Senate Majority Committee Members Max Baucus, MT Barbara Boxer, CA Benjamin L. Cardin, MD Thomas R. Carper, DE Kirsten Gillibrand, NY Amy Klobuchar, MN Frank R. Lautenberg, NJ Jeff Merkley, OR √ Bernard Sanders, VT Arlen Specter, PA Tom Udall, NM Sheldon Whitehouse, RI ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/08/13/senate-committee-on-environment-and-public-works/ If your federal Senator(s) are already signed on (see list below), please thank him/her. (Click here for a list of cosponsors in the House). If they could, every one of the 1,000 chimpanzees now languishing in U.S. laboratories would thank you. Great Ape Protection Act (S.3694) 1 Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 8/3/2010) 2 Sen Collins, ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/08/12/senate-cosponsors/ FULL HOUSE COMMITTEE Henry A. Waxman (CA), Chairman Ratio: 36–23 √  Indicates sponsor or cosponsor of the Great Ape Protection Act Tammy Baldwin, WI John Barrow, GA Joe Barton, TX Marsha Blackburn, TN Roy Blunt, MO Rick Boucher, VA √ Bruce Braley, IA Michael Burgess, TX √ G.K. Butterfield, NC Steve Buyer, IN √ Lois Capps, CA Kathy Castor, FL Donna Christenson, VI Nathan Deal, GA Diana DeGette, CO John ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/08/12/energy-and-commerce-committee-members/ If your federal Representative is already signed on (see list below), please thank him/her. (Click here for a list of cosponsors in the Senate). If they could, every one of the 1,000 chimpanzees now languishing in U.S. laboratories would thank you. Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326) 1 Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] (introduced ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/08/05/149-cosponsors-in-the-house-of-representatives/ Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have introduced the Great Ape Protection Act (S.3694) in the U.S. Senate, lending bipartisan support to end the use of great apes in invasive research. NEAVS/Project R&R Science Director Dr. Jarrod Bailey recently met with Senator Cantwell and several other ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/08/05/senate/ 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 ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/07/21/legislative-update-33009/ Public outrage continues over the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) plan to transfer an estimated 186 chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) in New Mexico to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in Texas, moving them from a holding facility to a lab where they will be more ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/07/08/200-chimps-being-shipped-to-texas-for-research/ NEAVS president Theodora Capaldo, EdD, recently presented at the 33rd meeting of the American Society of Primatologists (ASP) in Louisville, Kentucky, on a panel hosted by the Humane Society of the United States, also featuring Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. The panel, Great Ape Research and Retirement: Policy, Ethics, Economics and Science, ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/06/30/neavs-presents-at-asp/ Spring 2010 NEAVS/Project R&R, represented by Dr. Capaldo, attended a meeting of leaders from the sanctuary community, animal protection organizations, and the zoo community to discuss strategic plans for providing sanctuary to great apes rescued from research once the Great Ape Protection Act passes into law. Dr. Capaldo’s presentation, entitled “An ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/03/30/project-rr-on-the-road/ With 149 House cosponsors to date, the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R.1326/S.3694), currently in the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, continues to gain support. Meanwhile, opposition to the bill is beginning to become vocal — a sign that they are starting to get ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/03/30/opposition-starting-to-weigh-in/ 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 56-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 ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2010/03/09/help-wenka-and-all-elder-chimpanzees/ It is with great sadness that we share that on December 10th, 2009, Tom, Project R&R's Ambassador, died suddenly and unexpectedly at Fauna Sanctuary. Our condolences and love go out on behalf of all our supporters to Fauna director Gloria Grow, the chimps, and everyone at Fauna. Tom inspired us, taught us, and earned ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/12/15/saying-goodbye-to-tom/ On December 2, 2009, scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) reported that the experimental drug SPC3649 (developed by Santaris Pharma) was effective against hepatitis C in chimpanzees. According to the results from the study, the drug caused a substantial decrease in the level of virus present in ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/12/10/project-rr-responds-to-hep-c-drug/ Jarrod Bailey, PhD, NEAVS/Project R&R science director and author of several studies on the use of chimpanzees in human health research, was recently interviewed for Defining Person, a feature-length documentary film that explores the implications of the international movement to change the legal status of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans from property ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/11/17/video-dr-bailey-weighs-in-on-debate/ Boston – A recently released paper by Project R&R published in the journal Alternatives to Laboratory Animals (ATLA 37, 399–416), presents a serious challenge to long-standing claims that animals are an important part of human cancer research. “An Examination of Chimpanzee Use in Human Cancer Research” found that chimpanzees, our ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/10/13/study-challenges-importance-of-animals-in-research/ On September 24, 2009, results from an HIV vaccine clinical trial (known as the Thai Phase III HIV vaccine study or RV144) revealed a new experimental vaccine to be 31 percent effective in preventing HIV infection. Over 16,000 men and women participated in the trial, which was conducted in Thailand ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/10/05/project-rr-responds-to-thai-vaccine-study/ Chimpanzees, like Regis, are languishing in U.S. labs A study co-authored by NEAVS/Project R&R's president, vice president, and co-chair that was published last week further documents the severe emotional trauma chimpanzees suffer as a result of laboratory use and confinement. Developmental Context Effects on Bicultural Post-Trauma Self Repair in Chimpanzees was ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/09/09/chimpanzees-suffer-psychologically-like-humans/ Following the reintroduction of the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326), NEAVS/Project R&R joined Fauna, Chimp Haven, and HSUS for a Congressional briefing (June 25th), which brought the plight of chimpanzees in U.S. labs front and center to Capitol Hill.  The panel included two of the bill’s lead sponsors, Rep. ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/07/22/neavsproject-rr-on-capitol-hill/ With the passing of Michael Jackson, worldwide attention is now being focused on Bubbles and the Center for Great Apes where he resides in sanctuary. See: http://www.centerforgreatapes.org/residents-details.aspx?id=6  Also: Center for Great Apes statement to the press   http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/06/30/bubbles-born-in-a-lab-in-the-media-once-again/ On May 5th the European Parliament voted to ban all research on great apes except in cases when the research would help to conserve the species.  The decision is applauded by all the individual nations worldwide who have already ended or limited the use of great apes in research and ... http://www.releasechimps.org/2009/05/14/eu-animal-testing-vote-one-step-forward-and-one-step-stuck/