Our Mission

  


Our Objectives
Primates Incorporated will provide lifetime enriched care and improve the quality of life for nonhuman primates who come from the entertainment industry, research facilities, zoos, refuges, and private ownerships. We plan to fulfill this mission by:
Collaborating with an advisory board consisting of a combination of professionals with various backgrounds in order to provide the most appropriate accommodations for the primates;

Collecting behavioral information on animals prior to their placement, performing behavioral observations directed at improving their well-being, and providing the rehabilitation results to the public via online resources and newsletters;

Educating the public about primate-related issues such as their habitat in nature, the importance of their psychological well-being in a captive setting, and progress made in the 3R’s of nonhuman primate research: reduction, refinement and replacement.


Meetings

We will now be having our meetings online, first starting with our new e-newsletter, and then we will have a comments corner to keep the collaborative effort going. If you are not on our email list, email amy@primatesinc.com.

 

Did You Know?
The 2007 USDA Animal Welfare Report indicates that 69,990 primates are housed in U.S. laboratories. We don't know how many primates are involved in terminal studies.

What we do know is that there are researchers out there who are planning for the retirement of their primates from research as we speak.

The problem is that it is hard to find funding to retire monkeys and it takes a lot of effort by both the sanctuaries and researchers to coordinate the retirement of the monkeys.

If funding is not available and/or the primate sanctuary cannot accommodate additional primates, the researcher may get turned down, and then the primates will likely be sold to another study or kept on as a breeder.

Primates Incorporated aims to build a sanctuary and serve as a prototype for other communities to establish their own sustainable sanctuaries so that the thousands of primates who have a chance at retirement can get the peaceful sanctuary they deserve.