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A R T I C L E S By MINDY GOLDBERG MediaReach Public Relations February 15, 2006 Retired Medical Research Chimpanzees Start Migrating South for Retirement "Migration Establishes the Largest Chimp Sanctuary in the World" FORT PIERCE, FL February 15, 2006 - Save the Chimps (STC) is the first sanctuary in the United States devoted exclusively to chimpanzees and is the largest permanent chimpanzee sanctuary in the world, providing lifetime care for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories and owners no longer able to provide adequate care. The vision of Save the Chimps is to create a Sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees can live out their lives without the threat of ever returning to a laboratory. To ensure that the chimps never return to a lab, Save the Chimps does not receive federal funding and survives solely on the support of private organizations and individual donations. Save the Chimps has begun the first phase of their "chimp migration," moving 10 chimps from the Coulston Foundation research laboratory in Alamogordo, New Mexico to the STC Sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida. There, they will be introduced to a new colony of chimps before they are settled in to their island home at the 200-acre facility. This 37-hour journey from New Mexico to Florida is the first of many trips, 27 to be exact, that the STC trailer will take transporting chimps to the Sanctuary. STC plans to move all of the Coulston chimps to the Sanctuary in the next 18 months. When the migration is complete, 266 research chimps will be retired to 12 three-acre islands at the Fort Pierce Sanctuary. STC, formerly the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care, acquired 266 chimps and the Alamogordo, New Mexico laboratory owned by the Coulston Foundation in 2002. Immediately after taking possession of the lab, STC began renovation on the stark Alamogordo facility. They constructed a healthier and happier environment for the chimpanzees, including, for the first time in their lives, fresh food, enlarged cages, enrichment activities, compassionate caregivers and, most importantly, the establishment of social groups. The STC team introduced the chimps to one another and allowed them to form family units while still in New Mexico awaiting completion of the islands and facilities at the STC Sanctuary in Florida. Their socialization in NM will help make their transition to their new home in sunny Florida a natural one. To learn more about how you can support Save the Chimps please visit www.savethechimps.org. | |||||||||||||||
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