People Against Chimpanzee Experiments

PACE Campaign

In November 2006 Janie Reynolds, PACE Director, was presented with a key to the new chimpanzee retirement sanctuary for infected laboratory chimpanzees released from the Biomedical Primate Research Centre. In the audience was the Dutch Minister for Science whose department had agreed to finance the special facility. This ceremony marked the end of a long campaign by PACE and its coalition partners to close down the BPRC laboratory where a large colony of chimpanzee had been subjected to experimental procedures in inhumane living conditions. It was the last remaining laboratory holding chimpanzees in Europe.

Janie wrote about the release of one of the first groups of lab chimps in her editorial in 2006 (PACE News 2006). And in 2007 she was able to write of the joy of seeing the permanently infected chimps start retirement in a sanctuary built just for them (PACE News 2007).

For more information on the BPRC as it was in the 1990s see the CEECE report by Janie Reynolds in pdf format.