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Ad Thanking New Mexico’s
Leaders Runs Statewide
Recent Media Coverage Nets Increased Concern
for Jobs, Tax Dollars & Chimps
The 202 Alamogordo Primate Facility chimpanzees are facing a difficult battle, but they are gaining allies.
If you have been one of the many individuals or organizations reaching out to New Mexico’s leaders by calling, emailing, attending meetings, writing letters, talking to your friends or mailing in petitions, please pick up a copy of this Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal, the Las Cruces Sun-News, the Alamogordo Daily News or the Santa Fe New Mexican to see the progress you have made.
Twenty-three state leaders are standing with New Mexicans and citizens across the globe to protect the Alamogordo Primate Facility chimpanzees. Thank you to everyone who has spoken up!
RetireTheChimps.org has just been launched to coincide with this weekend's advertising push. Check out the new site and check back for updates!
The Alamogordo Primate Facility continues to receive important media attention, please read and share these stories:
Psychology Today -
Beautiful blog by Dr. Gay Bradshaw (author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity) features Dr. John Gluck’s essay, Chimpanzees, Research and Decisions. Please read for the history and trauma of chimpanzees in invasive research.
Discover -
This coverage features quotes from past media stories. For further coverage by the scientific community, see Scientific American and blog The Thoughtful Animal.
Associated Press -
You may already know National Institutes of Health claims concern for saving tax dollars and curing hepatitis C as reasons to move the chimpanzees, but in this story Southwest National Primate Research Center states their eagerness to make money off the chimps by studying a wide range of diseases.
Please stay with us through election season and beyond, we still have much work to do for the chimps.
Thank you for caring about animals!
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