APNM is offering a special opportunity to purchase chimpanzee freedom tags for just $15 each. Tags are available for retired chimpanzees being temporarily sheltered at the former Coulston Foundation (TCF) in Alamogordo, and other chimps still held subject to experimentation conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Holloman Air Force Base.
Thanks to Save the Chimps and primatologist Dr. Carole Noon, the Coulston Foundation was permanently shut down in 2002. Care of the 266 chimps living at the TCF was entrusted to Save the Chimps, with help from a $7 million grant from the Arcus Foundation. Dr. Noon founded Save the Chimps for chimpanzee rescue, retirement and relocation to her Floridian chimp paradise. Although more than half of the Alamogordo chimps have been relocated to the permanent Save the Chimps sanctuary in Florida, there are still more than 100 awaiting their turns to live in family groups on grassy islands. In their permanent home, they will eat fresh fruits and feel ocean breezes among jungle gyms and sturdy catwalks created just for them.
From vegan soup to nuts, it costs $5,000 to relocate just one chimp from New Mexico to Florida. Please support the chimp migration.
How to Order Your Tag(s)
You can "adopt" a chimpanzee quickly and easily. Choose from the list of chimps below, and contact us online or by mail. Your chimpanzee freedom tag will be mailed to you, or as a gift to the person of your choice. (For gifts, be sure to include the recipient’s address.)
Checks are payable to APNM and must be received before tags are mailed. Shipping is free! Send payment to: APNM Chimp Tags, PO Box 11395, Albuquerque, NM 87192
CLICK FOR LIST OF AVAILABLE CHIMPS TO ADOPT
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Order your chimp tag here:
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- Thirty-three (33) chimpanzees died "unintended" deaths at TCF
- TCF was investigated six times by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- USDA cited TCF for inadequate veterinary care
- The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found more than 270 violations of Good Laboratory Practice Standards (GLPs) in just three studies reviewed at TCF
- Scientists Jane Goodall and Roger Fouts called TCF "the worst lab in the history of the (federal) Animal Welfare Act"
Proceeds from the sale of chimpanzee freedom tags will help to fund the retirements of chimpanzees from medical research laboratories, such as the one at Holloman Air Force Base, to humane sanctuaries such as Save the Chimps.
WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR CHIMPANZEE FREEDOM TAG…
Wear it proudly! Wearing a freedom tag creates awareness of the plight of chimpanzees used for medical research.
Speak out about their suffering. Help end these cruel, unnecessary experiments.
Here’s how to read your chimpanzee freedom tag:
- Line one is the Name of your chimpanzee
- Line two is the Species (CHIMPANZEE)
- Line three is the former Inventory Number and chimpanzee’s gender
- Line four is your chimpanzee’s Date of Birth
- Line five is your chimpanzee’s Location: NIH, Holloman Air Force Base,
or the former TCF-The Coulston Foundation, Alamogordo
For chimpanzees held by the NIH in other locations, write:
Kathy Kaplan, Freedom of Information Officer
Office of Science Policy
National Institutes of Health, NCRR
6705 Rockledge Drive,
Bethesda, MD 20892
Ask chimpanzee "owners" the following questions, and follow up:
- Is this chimpanzee still alive?
- How is this chimpanzee being used?
- Is he/she caged alone?
- What are the future plans for this animal?
- Ask to be contacted about any change in the status of your chimpanzee.
MORE WAYS TO HELP:
- Share the information you receive. Urge others to support this program.
- Continue your own education about this horrendous laboratory.
- Stay involved.
- Write letters to the media about the immorality of primate biomedical research.
- Do something for animal rights on each birthday anniversary of the chimpanzee for whom you are now the guardian.
- Visit APNM’s web site frequently for updates: www.apnm.org
Visit APNM's Chimps campaign page to see follow-up information at.
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