Last week I met some folks who had some understandable confusion over the law surrounding research experimentation on chimpanzees! It is, in fact, unfortunately still legal, in the US, to conduct biomedical research on chimpanzees. The only thing that changed in 2015 when NIH decided to retire its own chimpanzees from use in research and to discontinue support for research testing on chimps, is that chimpanzees have not been used in federally sponsored research since 2015. Private research companies can, and very much do, continue inhumane, inefficient, ineffective, and invasive testing on chimpanzees in private labs.
What IS illegal, however, is to deny those chimps who HAVE been retired from federal research their sanctuary, as mandated by the CHIMP Act of 2000 which created and funded the federal chimpanzee sanctuary system. NIH continues to hold over two dozen chimps at a private facility rather than sending them to Chimp Haven where they, by law, belong - to live out the rest of their days in what can be as close to freedom as they'll ever have known. 🐵 💔
🚨BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has dropped its appeal in our chimpanzee lawsuit! The federal judge's ruling stands: NIH broke the law by refusing to retire former research chimps to Chimp Haven sanctuary.
We filed this suit with Humane Society Legislative Fund, Animal Protection New Mexico and three individual plaintiffs in 2021. We look forward to seeing the chimps transferred by NIH to sanctuary at Chimp Haven.
Read more: https://hsus.link/li032524
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