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The Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS) was established in 1957. Founder Irene Heaton was appalled by the suffering of animals within the entertainment industry, and campaigned tirelessly on their behalf throughout the rest of her life.
You can help improve captive chimpanzee care by evaluating how a family of chimpanzees responds to its environment. Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future.
Featuring articles, information and resource links to help you find everything you need to know to adopt cats and kittens from animal rescue groups in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and around the world.
Florida sanctuary offering lifetime care for animals retired from research laboratories or abandoned by private owners.
Seeks to expand such fundamental legal rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty to nonhuman animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos, through litigation and education.
Located in Wauchula, Florida, the center was founded in 1993. Its primary purpose is to provide a permanent sanctuary in a safe and enriching environment for orangutans and chimpanzees in need of long-term life care.
A non-profit refuge that cares for a wide variety of sick, wounded or unwanted animals -- but the primary residents are over 100 orphaned chimpanzees.
A collaborative project of attorneys. scientists and public policy experts working to make a significant and measureabele progress in protecting the lioves ans establishing the legal rights of chimpanzees and other great apes.
Friends of Washoe is a non-profit organization dedicated to the welfare of chimpanzees and especially the four chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute located on the campus of Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, Washington. Washoe has taken the idea of talking with animals out of the realms of fables and science fiction, and into the realm of scientific fact. Her accomplishments over the past three decades have had profound effects on changing scientific thought, influencing a wide variety of academic disciplines. Being the first chimpanzee to learn a human language and pass it on to her adopted son, Washoe is truly unique. Her accomplishments have also helped humans better understand their responsibilities to our fellow animals.
Provides sanctuary for four chimpanzees--Washoe, Loulis, Tatu, and Dar. Our primary goal is ensuring the well-being and protection of these chimpanzees by guaranteeing their freedom from invasive or disruptive research, by maintaining a safe, healthy, and interesting environment, and respecting and providing for their individual needs. The also encourages in other humans respect, responsibility, and compassion for all of our fellow apes by offering unique, engaging educational programs and resources to elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students and the public at large. Along with this they promote quality, humane research on the communication and behavior of the chimpanzees in our care, as well as research that furthers both the care of captive chimpanzees and conservation efforts to save chimpanzees from extinction by serving as a resource for the students of Central Washington University, its faculty, and visiting scientists.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering chimpanzee conservation through education. Here at our private sanctuary, Chimps Inc. offers a safe haven for released chimpanzees to live out their lives in dignity.
Exists to guarantee a lifetime of quality care to captive chimpanzees who are exploited by the biomedical research and entertainment industries. The Sanctuary allows captive chimpanzees to permanently live in a safe and enriching environment, and supports others to do the same through education and collaboration.
Their vision is to create a Sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees can live out their lives without the threat of ever returning to a laboratory.
A non-profit organization that exists to reduce the suffering of animals and to assist the community with making the lives of animals as safe as possible. We encourage people to extend their compassion to all animals by not consuming them, wearing them, using products tested on them or supporting events in which they are used for entertainment. CAP works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, special events, and by promoting animal protection legislation.
They have a tremendous track record in achieving real change for farm animals. We carry out hard hitting political lobbying, investigations that expose cruelty to farm animals and high profile campaigns designed to achieve better standards and happier lives for farmed animals everywhere. Our vision is a world where farm animals are treated with compassion and respect and where cruel factory farming practices end. Our mission is to advance the well being of farm animals worldwide.
Their vision is a world where farm animals are treated with compassion and respect and where cruel factory farming practices end. Their mission is to advance the well being of farm animals worldwide
A international agreement between Governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
"President Clinton has made protecting the environment one of his top priorities," says Kenneth R. Wykle, FHWA Administrator. "The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century - TEA-21 - offers an unprecedented opportunity for us to reduce highway impacts on wildlife." In our 1999 Strategic Plan, we commit ourselves to environmental stewardship - to protecting and enhancing the natural environment and communities affected by highway transportation. In the Plan, we also pledge to build and strengthen the partnerships that enable this to happen.
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