Who are the chimpanzees living behind the concrete and steel bars in U.S. laboratories? What are their names, lab ID numbers, ages, genders and other identifying information? WHO’S THERE? is a Project R&R campaign designed to find out – with your help.
We’re asking you to sign on to demand that laboratories holding federally funded chimpanzees release their names, ages, and other crucial information. Project R&R has made formal requests, but most labs are ignoring or dismissing those requests.
Your tax dollars demand an answer
Project R&R has sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding all federally funded chimpanzees – including those at Chimp Haven, a facility for “retired” chimpanzees supported by government funds. To date, only two labs have provided updated information on their residents, M.D. Anderson and Alamagordo.
Preparing a current census of chimpanzees in U.S. research facilities is going to take the work of every one of us. Research facilities should not be allowed to move chimpanzees from lab to lab, hide the whereabouts of any one of them, and treat them like expendable commodities.
Please sign on today to help us find out more about the chimpanzees now held in labs.