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Animal Defenders International’s groundbreaking ‘Save The Primates’ investigation exposes every aspect of the global primate trade from suppliers to UK testing facilities. Read more... or download the PDF

Save the primates

Replacing the rules on animal experiments in Europe

Save the Primates has drawn attention to efforts to protect our fellow primates. In 2007, theEuropean Parliament adopted a Written Declaration 40/2007 after it was signed by 55% of MEPs. The Declaration called for the revision of Directive 86/609 to urgently end the use of great apes and wild-caught monkeys in experiments, and for a timetable to be established to replace the use of all primates in experiments. Europe has now revised its rules on animals in experiments with the drafting of EU Directive 2010/63/EU. This is now an opportunity for governments in the EU to seriously commit to the implementation of sophisticated replacements for animal experiments; advancing science whilst ending the suffering of our closest relatives. We will report everything you need to know on these events, how you can help, and we’ll highlight other primate stories.

Latest News

September 1st: International Primate Day

This year remember the plight of our primate cousins used in horrific experiments worldwide. USA: The unborn babies of pregnant macaques dosed with ketamine. UK: The lungs of marmosets bled after being forced to breathe a deadly pathogen. Colombia: Owl monkeys torn from the wild and deliberately infected with malaria. It doesn’t have to be this way. Read more...

4,000 wild monkeys saved from laboratory experiments

Colombia: ADI has described the decision by the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca to revoke permits to capture wild owl monkeys for malaria experiments as a ‘breakthrough for animal protection and conservation’. Read more...

‘Chimeric’ monkey research – a dark day for research

News of the world’s first ‘chimeric’ monkeys, created by the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) has caused outrage and concern at ADI USA. Read more...

Victory for NASA monkeys

Our global campaign to end space experiments has been given a massive boost with NASA halting its proposed experiments on squirrel monkeys. Read more...

ADI Advances Legislative Campaign Against NASA Primate Experiments

With two hard-hitting new videos, ADI has launched a major U.S. educational and legislative campaign to secure public and government support to prevent NASA from proceeding with irradiating squirrel monkeys to study adverse effects of space radiation. Read more...

Jan Creamer, ADI President, appears on ISSUES with Jane Velez-Mitchell

On July 30, ADI President Jan Creamer appeared on CNN’s ‘ISSUES with Jane Velez-Mitchell’ show, to discuss our campaign against NASA’s monkey experiments, following the resignation of NASA engineer April Evans. Read more...

Russian Cosmonaut Supports ADI Opposition to NASA Primate Experimentation for Space Research

Celebrated Russian cosmonaut and Guinness Book of World Records holder Valentin Lebedev is the latest member of the aerospace industry to publicly oppose NASA’s plans to test primates to investigate the effects of space radiation. Read more...

European Parliament committee rejects amendments to animal testing directive

Nhe Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament has rejected, at a meeting on 12th of July, amendments to the Council’s common position on the animal experiments directive tabled by Brian Simpson MEP (Labour) and Martin Hausling MEP (Greens). Read more...

NASA Engineer Resigns Over Planned Primate Testing

NASA aerospace engineer April Evans has resigned her position as a space architect on the International Space Station (ISS) program as a result of NASA’s decision to conduct primate irradiation testing after 30 years of non-usage, a decision Evans believes is a major step backward for NASA’s animal testing record. Read more...

ADI and European Space Agency Strongly Oppose NASA Primate Experiments

As the Mars500 multi-part ground-based experiments begin in Moscow, Animal Defenders International (ADI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) speak out against NASA plans to use primates in experiments, a practice not utilized by NASA for decades. Read more...

European Space Agency opposes mars monkey experiments

The European Space Agency (ESA) is opposing experiments on monkeys in its partnership with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in a project called Mars 500. ESA made their position clear following our exposé of the Russian tests. Read more ...

Campaign starts to stop European Space Agency and Russian lab to experiment on primates for Mars 500 space programme

The European Space Agency (ESA) is partnering with the Moscow Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in a project called Mars 500 which ultimately aims at sending humans to Mars. Unfortunately this ambitious space exploration adventure will harm and probably take the lives of many monkeys before its completion. Animal Defenders International and the Anti Dierproeven Coalitie strongly condemn the experiments as cruel and unethical. Read more ...

House of Lords backs end of capture of wild monkeys...

...and to restrict monkey experiments. Yearly, thousands of monkeys are torn from their families in the wild for factory farm breeding to supply European lab. Read more ...

KEY MEPs DEBATE THE FUTURE OF PRIMATES IN LAB TESTS

As part of its ongoing lobbying work in the European Parliament pushing for stronger legislative protection for primates, Animal Defenders International (ADI) participated in a special MEP briefing in Brussels on 4 November 2009. Read more ...

Critical week for Europe’s lab animals

Trialogue meeting to consider steps to end the capture of wild monkeys by dealers. Read more ...

Lab Animals, Europe Decides.

Between January and May the European Parliament considered new rules for lab animals proposed by the European Commission. Read more ...

MEPs condemn UK animal experiments rise.

Two leading MEPs have criticised the sharp rise in animal experiments in the UK announced by the Home Office yesterday. The number of animal experiments increased by 454,000 (14%) to 3.7 million experiments – the highest level in over 20 years. Read more ...

ADI/NAVS is heard by the House of Lords.

ADI/NAVS was invited to present evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee on the July 9 2009 about the new Directive on animal experiments proposed by the European Commission. Read more ...

Undercover Exposé of the Primate lab trade launched in Spain

Animal Defenders International (ADI) and Animanaturalis (AN) screened exclusive and dramatic footage in a new documentary on the laboratory primate trade. The event was chaired by Catalan MEP Raul Romeva in his Barcelona office. Read more ...

MEPs buckle under vivisection industry pressure 6 May, 2009

MEPs vote to support non-animal research but strip away protection from wild caught primates; and remove prior authorisation requirements for over 4million experiments. Read more ...

MEPs vote to allow severe and prolonged suffering of animals and say its in the interests of animal welfare

Today in the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee MEPs have backed a series of amendments that seriously weaken proposals from the European Commission to regulate animal testing across Europe. Some measures could set animal protection back decades. Read more...

ADI hits back at claims better animal protection will drive scientific research out of the EU

Research by Animal Defenders International shows that industry scare stories that improved animal protection will force scientific research abroad, are unfounded and misleading. Read more...

Vote in European Parliament could send laboratory animal protection back to the Dark Ages

A crucial vote that poses the biggest threat to laboratory animal welfare in decades takes place on 31st March 2009 – and MEPs are being urged to take a stand against moves that would tear the heart out of existing animal protection legislation across Europe. Read more...

Vision for Europe

Vision for Europe published by ADI, NAVS, and Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research sets key areas of concern for MEPs, as they discuss the new rules on animal experiments. Read more...

Committee Digest

Each time the committee discusses the new Directive on animals used for scientific purposes, we will report on progress here...

Brussels 19.1.09

Consideration of European Commission Proposal on the use of animals for scientific purposes in European Union starts in the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI). Proposal includes a ban on the use of great apes and wild-caught primates in experiments. Campaigners seek to close loopholes... Read more...

Help stop experiments on wild-caught owl monkeys in Colombia

Colombian animal researcher, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, accused of involvement in illegal trafficking of his monkey victims. Read more...

Chance to change history

The long awaited revision of the 22-year-old EC Directive 86/609 on the use of animals for scientific purposes, goes before the European Parliament Agriculture Committee in Brussels in January. A once-in-a-generation opportunity to influence experimentation across the EU. Read more...

European Commission proposes overhaul of rules on animal experiments

The European Commission has published its proposals for a new Directive on the use of animals for scientific purposes. Read more...

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