Fwd: Don't Be Confused!

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Yerkes Alert Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories Yerkes Solicits for Private Donations - Don't Be Confused! Many NEAVS/Project R & R supporters have alerted us to a postcard they received from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. After contacting the lab to inquire about enrichment for the chimpanzees and to request the release

of elder chimpanzees into sanctuary, they received a reply signed by Stuart Zola, director of Yerkes. The reply says, in part: Yerkes National Primate Research Center “Like you, we are deeply committed to the ethical and compassionate treatment of these animals... We welcome any monetary donation you’d like to make to [Yerkes’ enrichment] program; all financial gifts are tax deductible... Chimpanzees will

continue to play a vital role in research programs... We look forward to celebrating these research advancements with you.” While we expected Yerkes to defend their minimal enrichment policies for the chimpanzees housed there, NEAVS was shocked to learn that the lab used their reply to our supporters as an opportunity to solicit private donations – quite erroneously assuming that individuals interested in protecting chimpanzees would be willing to contribute funds to keep chimpanzees in a laboratory! NEAVS/Project R & R is in the process of drafting

a reply not only to Yerkes but to its parent institution, Emory University. As always, our reply will support our arguments that chimpanzees currently held at Yerkes and other U.S. labs should be retired into sanctuary, and that Yerkes should move into the 21st century and replace chimpanzee research with more effective and more humane, non-animal research.A sincere thank you to our caring members for contacting the Yerkes laboratory on behalf of the chimpanzees housed there and for alerting us to their inappropriate response. We will keep you informed of our actions on this. In the meantime, please do not be confused and mislead into making a donation to the Yerkes National Primate Research Center – any donation to Yerkes will only help them keep chimpanzees in their lab and continue chimpanzee research! Reply to Yerkes director Stuart Zola at szola with your refusal to help them incarcerate and use chimpanzees in research and ask them to immediately release all of their estimated 140 chimpanzees into sanctuary where they will be provided with enrichment and a life worth living. Brodie, Yerkes Field StationPhoto: © J. Feuerstein Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. Tell-a-friend! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Project R & R. This message was sent to kerrimilam. Visit your subscription management page to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from Project R & R, click to remove yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or " in the subject line). Project R & R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) 333 Washington Street, Suite 850, Boston, MA 02108 © NEAVS. All rights reserved. Manage your subscription. Write to us at releasechimps. Great site - www.cok.net"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe. Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein

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