MATCHING GIFT ALERT! Please help TODAY! We are extremely grateful for everyone who has donated so generously this week to our BUILD IT! Campaign. If you haven't made a gift yet, will you help us reach our goal today in order to move chimpanzees out of labs and into sanctuaries? More than 150 chimpanzees are still at the New Iberia Research Center, waiting to be transferred. Before they can be brought to Project Chimps, more new habitats must be built. AAVS’s BUILD IT! Campaign helps sanctuaries with their URGENT need to expand, ensuring that ALL retired chimpanzees have a home. Project Chimps has a strategic plan to create a wonderful physical environment and social structure that will enable former research chimpanzees to choose where, how, and with whom to spend their time, while promoting the highest quality of life. Their plan includes a 25-acre network of interconnected outdoor habitats and structures, providing chimps with dynamic opportunities to travel and explore, as their cousins do in the wild. But funding is needed to start construction. Please, don’t let the chimps down! During our match challenge, your contribution will be doubled! Chimpanzees currently in laboratories should be released to sanctuaries. They have literally waited a lifetime for freedom. |