| | | | | NEWS HIGHLIGHTS July 2022 |  Air France to End Primate Transport Following decades of public outrage and the suffering of hundreds of animals, Air France has announced that it will stop transporting primates for use in research and testing, making it the last major airline to do so. It has been transporting primates from Mauritius, an island off east Africa, for laboratories in the U.S. and Europe. The many dangers associated with primate transport have been documented in AAVS’s 2011 report “Primates by the Numbers: The Use and Importation of Nonhuman Primates for Research and Testing in the U.S.” For example, we found that primates were shipped on multiple flights with total travel times lasting more than 24 hours to as long as 56 hours. AAVS also reported evidence that during transport and required quarantines, primates were at risk of suffering and dying from pneumonia, dehydration, trauma, and stress, or being euthanized due to testing positive for tuberculosis. Earlier this year, Kenya Airways announced that it would stop transporting primates for research, following a tragic accident in Pennsylvania in January that killed several monkeys. However, smaller airlines such as Wamos Air, which is partly owned by the Royal Caribbean Group, continue to transport primates for laboratory use. Help stop the transport of animals for research! |
|  Authors Hope Ferdowsian and L. Syd M. Johnson discuss the one-sided ethical foundation of animal research and the unresolved moral and scientific problems that need to be addressed. They argue that reliance on animal models is driven by convenience, accessibility, and animals’ vulnerability to coercion, not sound science, and is enabled by bias and lack of transparency and accountability.
READ MORE » |  An interview by NPR with author Ed Yong is representative of the publicity that his new book, An Immense World, has been receiving. It urges people to consider how animals experience the world. One lesson: when walking your dogs, let them linger on smells—that’s what matters to them! Give it a listen!
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| | SANCTUARY MOMENT: Save the Chimps |  Welcome Sunrise Seven! We were so thrilled to hear that the Sunrise Seven are settling in nicely at their new sanctuary home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida! Vanilla, Shake, Cayleb, Ernesta, Jake, Jeff, and Magic traveled from the Wildlife Waystation (which closed in 2019) in southern California, where they were under constant threat of wildfires, to the Sunshine State, arriving on July 2. They were the last group of chimpanzees at the Waystation in need of a permanent home, and we are so grateful to Save the Chimps for stepping up to take them in and for making the move happen in just a few months. (The 11 chimpanzees remaining at the Waystation will be moved to Chimp Haven later this year.) Save the Chimps is home to 222 other chimpanzees, most of whom once languished at the Coulston Foundation, a biomedical research laboratory with a deplorable history of violating the Animal Welfare Act, needlessly causing tremendous animal suffering. A longtime recipient of AAVS support through our Sanctuary Fund, Save the Chimps provides the chimpanzees in its care the opportunity to live in large family groups on 12 separate, three-acre islands, where they receive three fresh meals daily, first-rate medical care, and a variety of activities in an enriched environment. There’s no doubt that the Sunrise Seven will be living the best years of their lives at Save the Chimps. We couldn’t be happier! Check out the Sunshine Seven’s 2,400-mile trek across the county!
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