NIH to cease chimp breeding
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The National Institutes of Health will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for research, the agency announced this week.
The NIH’s National Center for Research Resources, which has had a moratorium on breeding such chimpanzees since 1995, cited financial reasons for its decision to permanently end the practice.
The Humane Society of the United States said the center’s chimpanzee population includes about 500 in laboratories and 90 more in a federal sanctuary for those deemed no longer needed.
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