Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Worldwide Primates Inc. was started by Mathew Block to import primates into the US for animal experimentation. The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00 from the Dept.

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Critter News

AUGUST 26, 2010

Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".

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Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. But see what kind of conditions SHE was in.

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