Scotland symposium on the use of great apes in invasive research

August 3, 2008 by Diana -

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Tomorrow (Monday) is the first day of the International Primatological Society Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. There is a very important symposium occurring at this conference on August 8th (Foxie’s birthday) – a discussion of the use of chimpanzees in invasive biomedical research. Learn more on the Humane Society of the United States’ website.

Also, the Project R&R site is filled with information about the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and the work being done to end this practice. It’s shocking what we have put chimpanzees through, including those now (thankfully) living at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest.

3 Comments

  1. Avatar Carrie on August 4, 2008 at 10:52 am

    I start every morning by reading your blog and am in ah of these amazing chimpanzees and the work you do.

    I thought some of your other readers might be interested in the website goodsearch.com. It’s like a search engine (sponsored by yahoo) that gives money to your charity of choice everytime you use it to search. I noticed this weekend that the NW Chimp Sanc is a registered charity there! It’s not much, but every little bit seems to help.



  2. Avatar Margaret and Karen on August 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    Thanks for the information, Carrie. This is a very effortless way to create some funds for our friends. I did it immediately. Also, installed the GoodSearch toolbar very quickly and easily. I seem to be searching all the time. It will be easy to use GoodSearch first.



  3. Avatar Shelly Knapp on August 12, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Diana, thank you for posting this information ~ as soon as time permits, I’ll be following up and looking into it. This gets to the point ~ we want to be focusing on solutions to keep them in the wild, where they belong, to begin with.



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