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The Primate Rescue Center is a primate rescue organization founded by Clay Miller and April Truitt in the late 1980s. The PRC is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization located in Wilmore , Kentucky , United States, approximately 17 miles south of Lexington , Kentucky. [ 1 ]
Save the Chimps, Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit American sanctuary specializing in the care of chimpanzees.The organization was founded by Carole C. Noon in 1997 with support from Jon Stryker of the Arcus Foundation.
Cronin recruited help from his best friend Jeremy Keeling, who was a fellow zoo keeper, and the pair set out to achieve their ambition of a primate sanctuary. Cronin was notified about an abandoned pig farm located near Wool, Dorset. The old land covered 65 acres and would be perfect for what would become a primate rescue centre.
Bushbabies Monkey Sanctuary is a privately owned multi-species primate rehabilitation centre situated in the foothills and gorges of the Magaliesberg mountain range, close to Hartbeespoort Dam in the North West Province of South Africa.
The mission of Project Chimps is "to provide lifelong exemplary care to chimpanzees retired from research". [9]To fulfill its mission of assisting these endangered nonhuman primates, Project Chimps has established several public education programs including Discovery Days and Chimpcation, [10] The sanctuary also hosts veterinary, behavioral, animal care and organizational development interns ...
The core missions are as follows: 1) To support wildlife law enforcement and to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned chimpanzees and other wildlife by providing long-life care 2) to engage children and the community to protect chimpanzees, local wildlife, and the Miombo forest through education and 3) to reduce poverty and improve local community ...
The sanctuary is a founding member of North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance (NAPSA) [3] and is accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. As such, it is not open to the general public as an attraction or zoo. The backstory of six of the chimpanzees at the Center for Great Apes was featured in the TV documentary series Chimp ...
Alison Lorraine Cronin, MBE (born September 1966) is the American director of Monkey World in Dorset, England, a sanctuary for abused and neglected primates.She is widely acknowledged as an international expert in the rescue and rehabilitation of abused primates, and in the enforcement of international treaties aimed at protecting them from illegal trade and experimentation.