The NIH is finally ending one of its most controversial research programs

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The National Institutes of Health is retiring all of its remaining chimpanzees used in research.

Nature News broke the story Wednesday, citing a November 16 email from NIH director Francis Collins to agency administrators which announced that the 50 NIH-owned research chimps will be sent to sanctuaries.

The agency retired more than 300 of its animals in 2013, following the recommendations an internal advisory panel that was based on a 2011 Institute of Medicine report, which found that most chimp research was unnecessary.

However, the NIH kept a colony of 50 chimps for research that meets strict standards, such as public health emergencies.
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So in the last two years 350 places have been found (or will be found) for chimps in sanctuaries? That's very impressive.
 
This 2013 article says the chimps "could eventually" go to facilities within "...the Federal Sanctuary System. The Federal Sanctuary System was established in 2002 by the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection (CHIMP) Act and Chimp Haven operates the Federal Sanctuary System, which is overseen by NIH": NIH to reduce significantly the use of chimpanzees in research | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

This 2013 article says "NIH officials said that 310 research chimpanzees will move to the national sanctuary at Chimp Haven, in Keithville, Louisiana, or other sanctuaries over the next few years. (About 100 have recently moved or are slated to be transferred later this year from New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana.)": NIH Will Retire Most Research Chimps, End Many Projects | Science/AAAS | News
 
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