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Recently, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Chimp Sanctuary Act (S 3613), a bill prohibiting the U.S. Air Force from warehousing chimpanzees on Holloman Air Force Base (AFB) in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The chimpanzee survivors, who were retired from invasive biomedical research, are languishing in a stark, outdated, costly lab facility that cannot meet the chimpanzees’ needs because the National Institutes of Health (NIH) refuses to send them to Chimp Haven, the federal sanctuary.
The US Air Force is enabling NIH by allowing the housing of chimpanzees at Holloman AFB and helping to prevent their transfer to Chimp Haven sanctuary.
Your federal legislators can help the chimps, but they need to know you support the Chimp Sanctuary Act—tell them why these chimpanzees matter to you!
These chimpanzees, who have been willfully forgotten by the NIH, were all subjected to years of painful testing and experiments. After suffering for decades, they deserve the chance to experience the normal life of a chimpanzee: building nests, living in large, mixed-sex social groups, and having greater choice about their day-to-day lives in a beautiful, forested setting at Chimp Haven.
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Please visit ForgottenChimps.org to follow the plight of the Alamogordo chimpanzees and the progress of the Chimp Sanctuary Act.