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The Primate Freedom Project is a
501(c)(3)
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not-for-profit
grassroots
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animal rights
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organization based in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. It is dedicated to ending the use of nonhuman
primate
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s in biomedical and harmful behavioral experimentation.
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The project is the primary sponsor of the proposed National Primate Research Exhibition Hall (NPRX) at 26 North Charter, directly between the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and the Harry Harlow
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Primate Psychology Laboratory, in Madison, Wisconsin
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.[Twohey, Megan]
"The protesters next door"
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The project provides information to the public concerning the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical and behavioral research in the United States. It advocates for the monkeys and chimpanzees held in American laboratories, primarily through encouraging supporters to write on behalf of individual animals, and through direct mailings to members of the United States Congress
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. It also supports affiliated grassroots efforts around the United States.
The organization gathers specific details about specific monkeys and chimpanzees in American laboratories through the use of the Freedom of Information Act Freedom of Information Act may refer to the following legislations in different jurisdictions which mandate the national government to disclose certain data to the general public upon request:
* Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act
* ...
and state open records statutes. Some of this information is used to memorialize identifying information about specific animals on tags that supporters can wear."Primate Freedom Tags"
Primate Freedom Project.
See also
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Animal testing
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Great ape personhood
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes, e ...
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Great Ape Project
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal right ...
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Great Ape research ban
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International primate trade
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List of animal rights groups
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Non-human primate experiments
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External links
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NPRXMadison's Hidden MonkeysPrimate Freedom Project at UCLAUtah Primate Freedom ProjectMinnesota Primate Freedom Project
* , MadisonMonkeys.com
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