Help End Chimpanzee Research

SUPPORT THE GREAT APE PROTECTION ACT!

Call Your Legislator The Great Ape Protection Act [H.R.5852]  was introduced  by Representatives Edolphus Towns (D-NY), David Reichert (R-WA), Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) on APRIL 17, 2008.

Jahaga M. Seres

• Call 202-224-3121 and ask to speak with your U.S. Representative. (To find your representative, click here).
• Tell your Representative you support an end to invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees.
• Ask them to please co-sponsor The GREAT APE PROTECTION ACT, H.R.5852.

Overview: Time is running out for the estimated 1200 (about 600 are federally owned) chimpanzees who remain in U.S. laboratories—most of whom have been in a lab for 40 years or more! It is time for the U.S. (the only remaining large scale user of chimpanzees for research) to join the growing list of other nations who have banned or severely limited their use of chimpanzees.

The Great Ape Protection Act, H.R.5852  seeks to prohibit:

• invasive research on great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons);
• the funding of such research both within and outside of the U.S.;
• the transport of covered great apes for  such research; or,
• the breeding of covered great apes for such research;

The Great Ape Protection Act, H.R.5852 seeks to require:

• the permanent retirement of all federally-owned, covered great apes.

Email Your Legislator

Or you can email your U.S. Representative (see below) and ask them to co-sponsor The GREAT APE PROTECTION ACT, H.R.5852.

Please remember they receive a lot of email. You can use your own words or simply edit the text below. Please note: this bill has been given a primary referral to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. If your Representative serves on this committee, it is particularly important that he/she cosponsor H.R. 5852.