The Washington Post: Chimpanzee research an endangered species as experts debate usefulness, ethics …But the role of chimpanzees in medical research is at a crossroads. Last week, the highest scientific body in the land put the issue on trial as a committee of the Institute of Medicine, part of the congressionally chartered National Academy of Sciences, met to deliberate the fate of nearly all of the world's remaining medical research chimps...
McClatchy Series Reveals Depth of Suffering
for New Mexico's Chimpanzees McClatchy's new special report "Chimps: Life in the Lab" gives impressive detail on what chimpanzees in New Mexico have been subjected to. Stories from the series appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including locally the Santa Fe New Mexican, Albuquerque Journal and Las Cruces Sun-News.
LA Times: Sidelined Research Chimpanzees Given Longer Reprieve A controversial plan to resume biomedical testing on semiretired, government-owned research chimpanzees living in Alamogordo, N.M., has been put on hold after the intervention of New Mexico politicians and a trio of U.S. Senators...
New York Times: Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research Flo the chimpanzee bounds about her enclosure, hurls a rubber ball then stares quizzically at the New Mexico green chile pepper that will be her morning snack. It has been a long time since Flo was on exhibit at the Memphis Zoo, even longer since she learned to smoke cigarettes during a stint with the circus...
AP: Retirement Or Research? Officials Debate Chimps' Fate A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal rights advocates, including New Mexico's governor and also famed primate researcher Dr. Jane Goodall...
Scientific American: Chimps' Fate Ignites Debate After a ten-year hiatus, the chimpanzees of the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico are being called back to duty. The 186 chimps, already grizzled veterans of medical research, will be pulled from an unofficial retirement and sent back into the lab by the end of 2011, the National Institutes of Health announced last month...
Psychology Today: Through a Glass, Darkly, and Out the Other Side ...Laboratory chimpanzees routinely experience hundreds of "knockdowns" (anesthetization by dart gun) and procedures that include liver punches, wedge and lymph node biopsies; and infection with NIV, hepatitis NANB and C virus. They live in terror and pain...
