Canadian Citizens: Sign to Show Your Support

Canada is home to the Fauna Foundation – the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Canada – and the first sanctuaries to rescue chimpanzees from U.S. laboratories, and the first sanctuary to accept HIV-infected chimpanzees.

Citizens of Canada can continue this tradition of helping chimpanzees by signing the petition to prohibit research on chimpanzees in their country – adding Canada to the growing list of countries like Belgium, Balearic Islands, Austria, Japan, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom that have already banned or limited the use of chimpanzees in research.

Project R&R’s investigations (as well as information from Canadian animal protection groups) have turned up only two recent studies involving chimpanzees, which likely rely on the use of biological samples from the U.S.  However, in the absence of a country-wide ban, it is possible that private companies may be using chimpanzees or that the use of biological samples from U.S. chimpanzees could be more prevalent than known. To date, there is no indication that living chimpanzees are currently being used in Canadian research. However, complete information is not available.