Monkey business boom & bust cycle echoes the beginning of the end for chimp use in biomedical research WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana––The June 3, 2026 bankruptcy declaration of laboratory monkey supplier Inotiv, Inc. and 18 affiliated debtors may signify that biomedical research use of monkeys has entered the same boom-and-bust death spiral that killed biomedical research […]
Jane Goodall, 91, defied scientific & ecological convention all her life
Beloved by the public, Goodall often left dogmatic authorities to rage like frustrated chimps PASADENA, California––Jane Goodall, 91, a British citizen originally best known for chimpanzee research done at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, during the first half of her 65-year professional career, and later as an international humane ambassador, died in California on October 1, 2025 […]
Why 37 chimps “retired” by NIH in 2013 are still not in sanctuaries
Humane Society of the U.S. sues National Institutes of Health over outcome of “CHIMP Act” claimed as HSUS “victory” ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico; SHREVEPORT, Louisiana; BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––“Nestled in the pines near Keithville,” 17 miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana, the 200-acre Chimp Haven sanctuary “even has 11 new residents as part of a $20 million […]
James Mahoney, DVM, “the Oskar Schindler of laboratory primates,” dies at 77
Mahoney moved more than 200 chimps & monkeys to sanctuaries ahead of scheduled transfer to other labs James Mahoney, DVM, 77, “passed away on September 6, 2017 as a result of complications of Lyme disease,” International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal announced on September 20. Remembered as the “Oskar Schindler of laboratory primates,” after […]
Opening doors, by Gary Ferguson
Carole Noon & Her Dream to Save the Chimps Save the Chimps (P.O. Box 12220, Ft. Pierce, FL 34979), 2014. 176 pages. 250 photos; hardcover. $24.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Opening Doors: Carole Noon & Her Dream to Save the Chimps is the second publishing venture undertaken by the Save The Chimps sanctuary in less than a […]