The desperate screams of fear captured on video by an HSUS undercover investigator speak volumes. This, coupled with hours of dreary boredom, is the life that more than 1,000 chimpanzees in US laboratories are forced to endure—some for over 50 years. But, with your help, The HSUS is working to make their suffering a thing of the past.

Midge spends his days lounging in the sun at The HSUS’s Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch—a sanctuary for rescued animals. But Midge’s life wasn’t always so carefree. This playful chimpanzee spent his first twenty years in a research laboratory, a traumatic experience that took a toll on his physical and mental health.

As people learn about the conditions that chimpanzees—highly intelligent and social animals who feel happiness, sorrow, pain and loneliness—are forced to endure in laboratories, pressure mounts to end their use in harmful research altogether, as has been done in so many other countries.

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Right now, the lives of nine chimpanzees kept at a Louisiana research facility are in limbo. Either they'll be considered for biomedical testing, or they’re sent to sanctuary. Ask decision-makers to do the right thing.

You Can Help

» Help stop the transfer of 202 government-owned chimpanzees to a biomedical research laboratory where they could be used in invasive experiments. Take Action »

» Rescue nine chimps from life in a research lab—urge decision-makers to send a group of five adult chimpanzees and their four babies to a sanctuary rather than use them in potentially harmful research. Take Action »

» Ask your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection Act, which would phase out harmful research on chimpanzees in laboratories and retire the approximately 500 federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary. Take Action »

» If you work or have worked in a lab with chimpanzees and have witnessed their mistreatment, please call our confidential whistleblower tipline at 866-293-HSUS.