Pumpkin enjoys sanctuary life at Chimp Haven. Photo courtesy of Chimp Haven. We are thrilled to share the news we have all worked so long and hard for: the last transport of the 21 remaining chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility has arrived safely at Chimp Haven. After decades in a laboratory setting, these individuals […]
NIH Announces Remaining APF Chimps Will Go to Sanctuary…Finally!
November 8, 2024 Animal Protection New Mexico learned this week that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to transfer to sanctuary the remaining 23 chimpanzees housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) located on Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The NIH has indicated it will start moving the last APF chimps to […]
Getting the Chimps Closer to Sanctuary – New Developments in the Ongoing Legal Battle with NIH
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed the National Institutes of Health’s appeal of a federal court ruling that the agency broke the law by withholding sanctuary retirement from federally owned chimpanzees formerly used in research. The appeal was dismissed at NIH’s request. Gene Grant, Chief Program & Policy Officer-Animals in Science […]
Chimps News 2020 and earlier
APNM’s Decades of Work for Chimpanzees Featured by The New York Times, Albuquerque Journal, KOAT, and other news outlets The New York Times’ front page story “Unlikely Partners, Freeing Chimps From the Lab” credits Animal Protection New Mexico’s work in helping to end the federal government’s use of chimpanzees in invasive research, highlighting the importance […]
