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AUGUST 19, 2010
Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. From the AP.
Critter News
AUGUST 23, 2010
The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success. Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Here's the latest I could find.still no real news. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.
Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2010
However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. They deserve better and we are capable of providing them with better.
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
The Alamagordo chimps will be allowed to remain in New Mexico for about two years while the NIH studies the issue of their transference. This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. AP) - Some 186 chimpanzees will remain at a federal facility in New Mexico for now.
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