http://ga1.org/campaign/wenka

Make Wenka’s Birthday Gift the Promise of Sanctuary

Wenka is a frail 55-year-old chimpanzee, held at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Born on May 20, 1959, Wenka has been in a laboratory for more than five decades - an unimaginable amount of time to live in concrete and steel.  She deserves the comfort and safety of sanctuary before her time runs out.

Your immediate help is needed to secure Wenka’s release, along with all the other elders in captivity who have been in a lab for 40 years or more. Many have spent their entire lives in a lab enduring multiple procedures or being repeatedly “bred” to make more babies for research. Read more..

Make Wenka’s Birthday Gift the Promise of Sanctuary

Wenka is a frail 55-year-old chimpanzee, held at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Born on May 20, 1959, Wenka has been in a laboratory for more than five decades - an unimaginable amount of time to live in concrete and steel.  She deserves the comfort and safety of sanctuary before her time runs out.

Your immediate help is needed to secure Wenka’s release, along with all the other elders in captivity who have been in a lab for 40 years or more. Many have spent their entire lives in a lab enduring multiple procedures or being repeatedly “bred” to make more babies for research. Read more..

http://ga1.org/campaign/wenka

HOW TO HELP
Sign the Project R&R petition* to the acting head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D. The NIH is the top government institution who oversees the four federally funded facilities that hold the oldest known chimpanzees in research. Please ask Dr. Kington to immediately release Wenka and the other eldest chimpanzees into permanent sanctuary so that they may enjoy their remaining years, months, or even days in the relative peace and freedom of sanctuary before they die.   

*In addition, Project R&R will be sending a letter to the President/Director of Emory University and Yerkes on behalf of all supporters, asking for Wenka's immediate release.