Posts Tagged ‘Georgia’
February 2018 News: More Chimps Outdoors at Project Chimps
In our February 2018 update, we describe the first day in our outdoor habitat for Marlon and his group of seven chimpanzees. Project Chimps’ executive director, Ali Crumpacker, also shares her experiences working with wild and exotic animals.
Read MoreExperiencing the Outdoors
There wasn’t a dry human eye in the sanctuary on Tuesday, as we celebrated the opening of the new Peachtree Habitat and the first release of chimpanzees outdoors at Project Chimps. Lance’s expression, above, says it all. This was the first time in their lives these former research chimps could look up at an unobstructed…
Read MoreJanuary 2018 News: Chimps Outdoors for the First Time!
There wasn’t a dry human eye in the sanctuary yesterday, as we celebrated the opening of the new, six-acre, Peachtree Habitat and the first release of chimpanzees outdoors at Project Chimps. In our January 2018 news, we also look at all of the exciting initiatives planned at Project Chimps in 2018!
Read MoreFormer Research Chimps Explore Outdoors for the First Time
Research chimpanzees who have spent their entire lives in captivity explored an outdoor forest habitat for the first time today. Project Chimps, a 236-acre sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in biomedical research in laboratories, released the chimps to freely explore a six-acre, forested habitat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Nine female and…
Read MoreOctober 2017 News: Building a New Home for New Chimps
Our facilities team is busy renovating Villa 4 so we can bring the next group of chimpanzees from the lab to permanent sanctuary. The Project Chimps property was once a gorilla sanctuary, so major renovations are required to make the facilities suitable for chimpanzees. We also unveil the winning photo for our 2018 calendar! Read…
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