SAVE THE CHIMPS SANCTUARY

Dr. Theodora Capaldo and Dr. Jarrod Bailey, representing NEAVS (New England Antivivisection Society), and Gloria Grow, founder and director of Fauna Foundation visited last November and gave to the directors of Save the Chimps Sanctuary, in Florida – the largest chimpanzees’ sanctuary of the world, the award “Brown Dog Humane Achievement Award”. The award is given to people and organizations that fight against the use of animals in medical research laboratories.

Primatologist Dr. Carole Noon, founder of Save the Chimps who died two years ago, had her work’s recognition, the work of free chimpanzees who used to be submited to torture in labs, like the ones at Coulston Foundation and North-American Air Force.

At the same time the award was being received, Dr. Jarrod Bailey, an expert in genetics, presented a lecture for the team of the sanctuary about the use of animals, especially great primates, in medical experimentation and the useless results achieved. None of the experiments done with primates had good results and R&R Project fights to retire, definitely, all the chimpanzees who still live in medical research centers, or who are property of NIH – North-American National Institutes of Health, which sponsor and support researches with primates.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian
President,GAP Project International