Who are the chimpanzees living behind the bars in U.S. laboratories?  What are their names, lab ID numbers, ages, genders and other identifying information?  WHO’S THERE? is a Project R&R campaign designed to find out – with your help.

We’re asking you to sign on to demand that laboratories holding federally funded chimpanzees release their names, ages, and other crucial information.  Project R&R has made formal requests, but as of February 2006 most labs are ignoring or dismissing those requests.

Your tax dollars demand an answer

Project R&R has sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding all federally funded chimpanzees – including those at Chimp Haven, a recently built facility for “retired” chimpanzees supported by government funds. To date, only three labs have provided updated information on their residents: Alamogordo Primate Facility, M.D. Anderson, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Preparing a current census of chimpanzees in U.S. research facilities is going to take the work of every one of us.  Research facilities should not be allowed to move chimpanzees from lab to lab, hide the whereabouts of any one of them, and treat them like expendable commodities.

Please sign on today to help us find out more about the chimpanzees now held in labs.