Last week we welcomed you to NEAVS and told you a little about ourselves. This week we’d like to give you more details about Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories, our major campaign.

A Bit of History

In 2006, NEAVS launched Project R&R. Today, several national organizations and sanctuaries, and thousands of individuals are committed to and actively working toward ending the use of chimpanzees in U.S. research and retiring them to sanctuary.

While other countries have already passed laws that limit or prohibit research on great apes, the United States is the only remaining country in the world to use and hold large-scale numbers of chimpanzees for research. With recent Institute of Medicine and National Institutes of Health recommendations that chimpanzees “are not necessary” in nearly all areas of current research, we are closer than ever to retiring chimpanzees to sanctuary.

In Sanctuary, Chimpanzees...

• Are provided daily psychological and physical enrichment that exceed laboratory standards
• Enjoy a variety of healthy and fresh food
• Access the outdoors as they choose
• Begin to heal from trauma, both physical and psychological, from life in a lab

Thank you for supporting our efforts on behalf of chimpanzees in U.S. labs!

Theodora Capaldo, EdD
Executive Director