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.

Ways You Can Help

» 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 »

» Tell the National Institutes of Health to retire to sanctuary the 26 eldery chimpanzees currently living at the federally-owned New Iberia Research Center.  Take Action »

» Receive the latest news on your Facebook page by joining the group "The HSUS Chimps Deserve Better Campaign" and the cause "STOP the use of Chimps in Research."