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Lincoln Park Zoo Partners With Chimp Haven — A Place Where Chimps Can Get Out of Their Lab Cages and Live Free

The collaboration between the two institutions, is considered to be groundbreaking.

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Chimp Haven Now the Largest Chimp Sanctuary in the World

The arrival of five new retired chimpanzees this week at Chimp Haven — added to the 23 other retirees welcomed so far this year — now makes Chimp Haven the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world, according to a news release. Even more chimps are expected this fall. They’ll join the more than 250 chimpanzees, most of whom were used in biomedical research, now calling the 200-acre forested sanctuary their home.

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Chimp Haven Now World’s Largest Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Chimp Haven is now the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world following the recent arrival of five new chimp retirees, the Keithville-based refuge announced.

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U.S. Chimp Retirement Gains Momentum, as Famed Pair Enters Sanctuary

After years of experiments, a protracted battle to grant them legal “personhood,” and a life spent bouncing between two scientific facilities, two of the world’s most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo have arrived at Project Chimps.

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Chimp Haven Home to Seven New, Important Retirees

With seven new retirees joining Chimp Haven from New Mexico this month, “[w]e now have more chimpanzee’s in sanctuary, than those left in research facilities, which is a huge milestone moment,” Amy Fultz, Chimp Haven’s director of behavior said.

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Sue Perkins and the Chimp Sanctuary Review – Cruelty, Survival and Plenty of Tears

A moving tale of mistreatment – from the chimpanzee infected with HIV in a lab to another kept locked in a garage for 15 years – with the presenter and keen animal lover.

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A History of Chimps in Medical Research

A unique timeline presents important events in the history of chimpanzee medical research, and its ending.

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Why So Many Women Founders? Because We Can!

There is a significantly high percentage of women advocates in animal protection. NEAVS would like to remind us all how much the movement’s progress has been fueled by their tireless work.  

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A Gainesville Woman’s Monkey Business

In Kari Bagnall’s makeshift jungle, she gives primates a home.

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Center for Great Apes

An ape sanctuary hidden in the middle of Florida is making the impossible, possible. Patti Ragan, the founder of the center, dreamed of a place where apes can go after they retire from show biz, or just cannot be a pet anymore. In 1997, she established a place for these apes to live among others who have been in a similar situation.

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Celebrates Five Years

On June 13, 2008, a truck bearing seven chimpanzees from Pennsylvania rolled up the driveway at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, a 26-acre site on a hillside east of Cle Elum above the Yakima River.

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We Are Family: Diana Goodrich Introduces Us to the Residents of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

Diana Goodrich tells us about her journey from starting out as a psychology student studying human-chimpanzee communication to her current role as Director of Outreach for Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest.

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