Sentences with phrase «chimpanzee sanctuary»

On - site activities include day and night game drives, visits to the chimpanzee sanctuary and endangered northern white rhinos, as well as bush dinners and sundowner experiences.

My first stop was the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

Nelspruit, now known as Mbombela, is the capital of Mpumalanga and in close proximity to the main Lowveld attractions, making Nou's Toeka an excellent base for exploring the Kruger National Park, Sudwala Caves, Kaapsehoop, the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and much more.

Leisure facilities include day / night game drives in a 4x4 vehicle, sundowners, guided walks and visits to a chimpanzee sanctuary.

A visit to the chimpanzee sanctuary near Nelspruit is also very popular.

In 2011, I was surprised to learn from one of MDB's bloggers, Shelly, that there was an amazing chimpanzee sanctuary here in Montreal (with Jane Goodall as a personal friend to the place, you KNOW it has to be amazing).

Presenters: Kellie Heckman, Executive Director, Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS); Jennifer Place, Program Associate, Born Free USA; J.B. Mulcahy, Co-Director, Chimpanzee Sanctuary NW

-- Sarah Baeckler, Executive Director of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

Her previous volunteer experience includes wildlife rescue in South Africa, the Los Angeles Zoo, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, the Burke Museum in Seattle, Bats Northwest, and wildlife rescue in Guatemala.

The Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary is a great choice for a day date.

NhRP appealed, hoping to move the animals to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary.

From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.

The group claimed that four New York chimpanzees — Hercules and Leo at Stony Brook, and two others on private property — were too cognitively and emotionally complex to be held in captivity and should be relocated to an established chimpanzee sanctuary.

Kiki is a chimpanzee at Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Republic of Congo.

This research is made possible by the chimpanzees at Friends of Washoe and the collection of videotapes from African chimpanzee sanctuaries and field settings.

Not exact matches

An animal rights group has lost another legal bid to have two chimpanzees declared persons so they can be transferred to a sanctuary.

Two chimpanzees that were caged at a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary don't have the legal rights of people in New York, an appeals court said Thursday.

Crumpacker says the sanctuary's finances are in the black, even though it relies completely on donations because it takes only privately owned chimpanzees.

Yet from 2015 to mid-2017, only 73 chimpanzees entered sanctuaries, leaving nearly 600 of the animals in labs; half were owned by the government, half by private research facilities.

The apes will spend their next month isolated from the rest of the sanctuary's 31 chimpanzees to make sure they are healthy.

His has done behavioral and cognitive studies of both chimpanzees and bonobos living in African sanctuaries.

«For the first time, there are more chimpanzees in sanctuaries than there are in labs,» says Stephen Ross, director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, and board chair of Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, the only sanctuary authorized to take government - owned chimps.

The sanctuary doesn't yet have capacity for 300 more chimpanzees.

He wants Tommy — and eventually the other chimpanzees — moved to a sanctuary in Florida.

The chimpanzees will be moved 10 at a time, so the 95 - hectare sanctuary should receive all of them within the next 3 to 5 years.

Another big factor in his decision was that «in 2013, Congress lifted a cap on how much NIH can spend on supporting chimpanzee retirement; and Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, a sanctuary where retired NIH chimps are being moved, has space for about 25 animals and could potentially take more later.»

Existing sanctuaries can hold only 150 chimpanzees, according to the NIH.

Biomedical research on chimpanzees has been waning since 2013, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would phase out most government - funded chimp research and retire the majority of its research chimps to sanctuaries.

After asking an advisory committee to help it carry out IOM's advice, NIH announced last June that it would retire to sanctuaries all but 50 of its 360 research chimpanzees and impose new requirements on any remaining NIH - funded behavioral and biomedical studies.

In January, the NIH's Council of Councils backed the IOM report, recommending that NIH revamp the review process for future chimpanzee experiments and retire most of the animals it owns to sanctuaries.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

So zoologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and colleagues recorded the laughs of young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and one siamang at zoos and sanctuaries.

For orphans, however, the presence of other adult role models may alternatively be beneficial for boosting social competence, which is an important consideration to entertain for sanctuaries dealing with integrations of chimpanzees.»

Yet in the past 2 years, only 73 chimpanzees have entered sanctuaries, while nearly 600 remain in research facilities.

The slow pace has heightened tensions between the laboratory and sanctuary communities, which are struggling to put aside decades of frigid relations to make chimpanzee retirement a reality.

The National Institutes of Health will begin retiring many of the nearly 1,000 captive chimpanzees to the Federal Sanctuary System, leaving roughly 50 for future experimentation needs.

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.

Since early 2013, 110 chimpanzees have been retired to Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville, La., from the New Iberia Research Center in Lafayette, La..

Kitty, a female chimpanzee that gave birth to many offspring used in laboratory experiments, has died in a Texas animal sanctuary, the Humane Society of the United States announced Friday.

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In March and April, they plan to visit Save the Chimps, a sanctuary for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories, entertainment, and the pet trade industry, and the Barrier Island Sanctuary, an educational nature sanctuary, to take a tour and help clean up a beach where sea turtles lay thsanctuary for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories, entertainment, and the pet trade industry, and the Barrier Island Sanctuary, an educational nature sanctuary, to take a tour and help clean up a beach where sea turtles lay thSanctuary, an educational nature sanctuary, to take a tour and help clean up a beach where sea turtles lay thsanctuary, to take a tour and help clean up a beach where sea turtles lay their eggs.

Counting shelters and humane societies, breed rescues and rabbit rescues, chimpanzee refuges and feral cat caretakers, elephant and big cat sanctuaries, there may be as many as 20,000 animal organizations in the U.S. alone.

We've worked with NIH to end the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments, and nearly 700 chimps are on their way out of laboratories and into sanctuaries.

Operating this kind of professionally run sanctuary for hundreds of chimpanzees requires funding.

Chimp Haven Sanctuary Spotlight What They Do: Chimp Haven provides the chimpanzees with the freedom to make choices, live in large social groups in spacious habitats, see the sky overhead, feel the grass under their feet, and receive round - the - clock humane care and veterinary treatment.

Chimp Haven Sanctuary needs our support in accepting newly retired chimpanzees.

The federal government provides a portion of Chimp Haven's support, but the sanctuary also needs a significant amount of private money if it is to care for all of the chimpanzees waiting to leave the labs for a humane retirement home.

St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary: September 2012: 64 - 65 Houston Zoo, Saving the Orangutan: October 2012: 64 - 65 Saving the Lions: November 2012: 62 - 64 Saving Lives in Central America: December 2012: 60 - 61 Saving Sea Turtles: Jan / Feb 2013: 62 - 63 Saving the Borneo Elephants: March 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation Corner: April 2013: 64 - 65 Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: May 2013: 62 - 63 Conservation Corner: June 2013: 64 - 65 Protecting the Ethiopian Wolves: July 2013: 66 - 67 Saving Rhinos from Extinction: August 2013: 62 - 63 Saving Animals from Extinction: September 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of the African Painted Dog: October 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of Chimpanzees: November 2013: 64 - 65 Conserving Attwater's Prairie Chickens: December 2013: 64 - 65 Traveling to See Animals in the Wild with the Houston Zoo: Jan / Feb 2014: 64 - 65 Blue Billed Curassow Conservation: March 2014: 62 - 63 Houston Toad Conservation: May 2014: 60 - 61 Lion Conservation: June 2014: 58 - 61 Giant Armadillo Conservation Project in Brazil: July 2014: 58 - 59 Conserving the Gorillas: August 2014: 58 - 59

Guided tours take place three times a day, every day of the year (weather permitting), when the chimp tour guide talks about chimpanzees, the sanctuary, and introduces the individual chimps and their stories - from the safety of the viewing points.

Experience unusual wildlife encounters at an elephant sanctuary, wildlife rehabilitation centre, cheetah breeding project, bird of prey centre, chimpanzee eden and private game reserves.