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Friend,
Finally, 23 chimpanzees who are owned by the U.S. government and who were previously used in painful biomedical experiments will soon be moved from a laboratory in New Mexico to Chimp Haven sanctuary where they belong. After years of fighting for these chimps to be sent to sanctuary, we are thrilled by this news and cannot thank YOU enough for your advocacy that helped make this possible!
Wins like this happen because of people like you, friend. Please make a donation to HSLF today to support our work ending cruelty and abuse for ALL animals!
Since 2019, the National Institutes of Health had been refusing to move these chimps to sanctuary. We believe that the extraordinary amount of pressure that has been put on NIH to move them to Chimp Haven—including the engagement of thousands of our supporters who demanded that the chimps be moved and our winning lawsuit—played a major role in the decision to finally move them to sanctuary.
Now, these chimps will be able to leave the Alamogordo Primate Facility—the federally owned laboratory in New Mexico where they have lived for decades—and spend the rest of their lives at Chimp Haven, a lush 200-acre forested sanctuary specifically designed to cater to the unique needs of chimps once used in biomedical research.
We are thrilled that these 23 chimps will finally experience sanctuary life, but there are still an additional 48 government-owned and supported chimps at two laboratories in Texas who deserve to spend the rest of their lives at Chimp Haven. We will continue to work to see that every chimp owned and supported by the government gets the sanctuary retirement they deserve.
Our celebration is only undercut by the knowledge that NIH’s recent announcement comes too late for 21 chimpanzees who passed away during the last five years while NIH refused to move them. The agency’s foot-dragging condemned these incredible animals—who had endured a lifetime of suffering—to spend their final years and days in a sterile laboratory with barren outdoor enclosures—the very same facility in which they were subjected to harmful experiments.
We will keep fighting for these chimps—and all animals—but we need you standing with us once again. Don’t wait to make your gift. Chimps still languishing in laboratories need you.
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