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July 27, 2008 -Why They're Human Rights - In Spain, a funny thing is happening on the way to the circus -- all of the monkeys are disappearing. At least, that is what a group of legislators on an environmental committee is hoping will happen, now that parliament is considering a resolution to grant certain human rights to "our nonhuman brothers" -- great apes, gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans. More

June 25th, 3008

Frans de Waal is the director of the Yerkes Behavioral Field Station. He is responsible for the unconscionable separation of twin chimpanzee brothers named Hunter and Lyons in 2006. Both Hunter and Lyons lived together at the station for 21 years. Lyons was in poor health and was sent to Chimp Haven where deWaal serves on the board. Sadistically,
de Waal chose to send Hunter to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) to be used in research. SFBR is one of eight laboratories which comprise the National Primate Research Center system.
De Waal argues that morality is not a high trait that we acquired late but one that is etched into our instincts. His immeasurable lack of morality and cruelty, along with that of his fellow vivisectors, refutes this theory. In 2007, Frans de Waal was named a Time 100 Scientist and Thinker. This is a significant commentary on Time's continued support of primate experimentation as UW-Madison vivisector, Richard Davidson, was listed in 2006 as one of the world's top 100 most influential people.
Since their deliberate separation, Chimp Haven has offered a permanent home to Hunter so that he can be reunited with Lyons. Hunter has suffered as a victim of research for 2 long years. Please take a moment to write and phone your Congressional representatives and the following to urge them to release Hunter. Don't allow Hunter to be forgotten!

Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Director               Michael O. Leavitt
National Institutes of Health                  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
9000 Rockville Place    200 Independence Avenue, N.W.
Bethesda, MD 20892     Washington, DC 20201
301 496-4000    202 619-0257

Dr. James W. Wagner                          Frans de Waal
Emory University                                  Yerkes Field Station
Office of the President                           2409 Taylor Lane
Mail Stop #1000/001/1AP                      Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Atlanta, GA 30322                                404 727-9050
404 727-6123

May 21, 2008 - US plans more primate research -

Scientists in the United States are planning for an increase of non-human primate research.

Currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds eight National Primate Research Centers with a total of about 26,000 animals. But several factors are expected to drive demand, among them the failure last year of an HIV vaccine candidate being trialled by the pharmaceutical company Merck. Such failures have underscored the need for more non-human primate research to answer basic questions about the virus and to develop new vaccine concepts.

“We fully anticipate that the animal model will have a resurgence of interest and importance because we need it to answer some of those fundamental questions,” says Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland.