Help Ban Research on Chimpanzees in the U.S.
Sign IDA's petition urging Congress to end cruel experiments on humankind's closest genetic relatives
Inspired by the groundbreaking work by Dr. Jane Goodall to educate the public about the intelligence of chimpanzees and end experimentation on them, IDA is calling on national leaders to ban experiments on these primates, who share more than 98% of their DNA with human beings. We are starting by gathering signatures on a petition that we will submit to Congress showing the groundswell of support for a ban on chimpanzee research in the U.S.
Chimpanzees' cognitive sophistication is comparable to that of human children, making their use in experiments particularly unethical. They suffer isolation, deprivation, pain, and often death in laboratories while chimpanzee populations continue to rapidly decline in their natural habitats. Thousands of chimpanzees are used in experiments every year in the U.S., mostly for research on infectious diseases that affect human beings.
Other countries—including New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria—have banned research on chimpanzees, while Japan has called a moratorium on such experiments and the U.K. stopped issuing new licenses for chimpanzee research a decade ago. Many of these countries have also made strides in eliminating research on animals by using and developing humane non-animal methodologies, an approach that IDA promotes with our Reallocation Initiative. There is also a strong movement to ban chimpanzee research throughout the European Union, backed by a Written Declaration on primate experimentation that has already been signed by 178 members of the European Parliament.
What You Can Do
Sign IDA's petition urging Congress to introduce legislation to ban chimpanzee research in the U.S. We need as many signatures as possible to convince our leaders to take action, so please also ask your family and friends to sign.
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