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Nature Medicine 6, 9 (2000)
doi:10.1038/71605
New bill mandates sanctuary system for retired chimps
Alan Dove1
- New York
In an effort to establish cost-effective 'retirement' facilities for hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed for biomedical research, new legislation introduced in the US Congress would establish a nationwide network of sanctuaries supported by a combination of government and private funds. But National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials are concerned that the specificity of the new legislation will restrict their flexibility in developing an effective sanctuary strategy, and are also dismayed that they were not consulted or asked about plans they have been developing since 1998—the Chimpanzee Maintenance Plan (ChiMP)—to establish long-term chimp housing.
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