Help Retire the 26 Elder Chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center

Of all the stories to come out of the undercover investigation of the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), some of the saddest are those of chimpanzees like Simba, who was caught in the wild in 1967 (nearly 40 years ago), and Karen, who was caught in the wild in 1958 (more than 50 years ago), both of whom have spent their lives since then behind bars in laboratories. Simba and Karen are two of 26 elderly chimpanzees at NIRC who have languished in laboratories after being taken from their mothers in the wild.

Please contact Dr. Barbara Alving, the Director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)—the center under the National Institutes for Health (NIH) responsible for the oversight and maintenance of the federally-owned chimpanzee colony—and ask her to retire these chimpanzees to sanctuary before it's too late. It is estimated that within the next five years at least half of these 26 chimpanzees will have passed away.

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