Chimpanzees Who Are "Retired" From The New Iberia Research Center Must Go To Sanctuaries, Not Other

by: Kelly Rogers
recipient: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that 110 chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) would be "retired." This is great news. However, only 10 of the chimpanzees will go to a sanctuary. The other 100 will be transferred to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio. TBRI has a record of poor primate care and was fined $25,714 by the USDA earlier this year for violating the Animal Welfare Act.

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Chimpanzees Who Are "Retired" From The New Iberia Research Center Must Go To Sanctuaries, Not Other