Help rescue Wenka and 17 other elder chimpanzees before time runs out.
Wenka is a frail 54-year-old chimpanzee held at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who deserves the comfort of sanctuary before she dies. In captivity, chimpanzees have a life expectancy of 50-60 years. Her time is running out.
Your immediate help is needed to secure Wenka’s release along with 17 other chimpanzees born in the 1950s who are still held labs around the country.* Some have spent their entire lives in a laboratory enduring multiple procedures or being repeatedly “bred” to make more babies for research. Some were captured as infants in Africa.
We recently learned that seven of these individuals have already died.
The Chimpanzee Elders in Need of Rescue* (updated June 2008)
- Gwen, age 54 (New Iberia) - deceased
- Wenka, age 54 (Yerkes)
- Susie, age 52 (PFA) - deceased
- Cheeta, age 51 (Yerkes)
- Flo, age 51 – (Alamogordo)
- Lulu, age 51 (Yerkes)
- Maxine, age 51 (Yerkes)
- Harriet, age 49 (PFA) - deceased
- Jenda, age 48 (Yerkes) - deceased
- Reba, age 48 (Yerkes) - deceased
- Karen, age 50 (New Iberia)
- Jake, age 48 (New Iberia) - deceased
- Guy, age 49 (Alamogordo)
- Boka, age 47 (Yerkes) - deceased
- Billy Ray, age 49 (New Iberia)
- Clay, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Diana, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Jan, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Julius, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Lady Bird, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Martha, age 48 (Yerkes)
- Mary, age 48 (Yerkes)
- Pumpkin, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Sandy, age 48 (New Iberia)
- Walter B., age 48 (New Iberia)
Names in parentheses indicate facilities where these individuals are believed to be held.
*Some labs have not responded to our requests for 2005-2006 information. Therefore, it is unknown if all the individuals listed above are still alive, have been transferred to other facilities, or if other elders exist. Alamogordo is a government owned holding facility. Yerkes (GA) and New Iberia (LA) are part of the National Primate Center system funded by tax-payer dollars.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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Read more about Wenka and other chimpanzees from a former lab worker.
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Learn more about what the Chimpanzee Elders have endured over decades of use.
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View WHO’S THERE? lists of the chimpanzee individuals held in labs.
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