Chimps Deserve Better: more great HSUS news
Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO of The Humane Society of the United States wrote:
Last year was a very productive year for The Humane Society of the United States’s Chimps Deserve Better campaign and we wanted to share some recent, exciting news to get you energized for 2008.
On December 26, President Bush signed the Chimp Haven is Home Act into law. The Act, which was championed by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.), amends the CHIMP Act of 2000 to ensure that chimpanzees retired into the federal chimpanzee sanctuary system will be given permanent protection with no chance of being recalled back into research. This amendment fixes a serious flaw in the original legislation that allowed chimpanzees to be returned to research if certain requirements were met. Fortunately, no chimpanzee was ever returned to the lab.
This legislation is fabulous news for the chimpanzees who are currently living in the federal sanctuary system and those who will join them in the future. This news also gives us great momentum for the campaign as we continue to work towards our goal of ending invasive research on chimpanzees and retiring those in laboratories to suitable sanctuaries.
We appreciate your support so far and hope you will stay tuned because we will need your help more than ever in 2008!
