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Russian Cosmonaut Supports ADI Opposition to NASA Primate Experimentation for Space Research
2 August 2010
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 »Slight decrease in UK animal experiments
2 August 2010
The Home Office published the annual statistics on the use of animals in scientific research for 2009. The results show that there was a slight decrease in the number of procedures in the UK by 36,540 (approximately 1%) to over 3.6 million experiments, compared to 3.7 million in 2008 which was the highest level in over 20 years. Read more »European Parliament committee rejects amendments to animal testing directive
15 July 2010
The 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
25 June 2010
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
16 June 2010
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
30 April 2010
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
26 March 2010
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 »Swiss Supreme Court rules against researchers in landmark case for the protection of primates
16 October 2009
The Swiss Supreme Court ruled this week against the Polytechnic School of the University of Zurich, which was appealing a decision to deny them the license for two scientific projects involving the use of primates. Read more »ADI and AgireOra launch Save the Primates campaign in Italy
11 September 2009
ADI Exposé of the laboratory primate trade and campaign launch. Animal Defenders International (ADI) and AgireOra host screening of shocking DVD in Turin, Italy. A major new campaign to end the use of monkeys in European laboratories is being launched today in Turin, Italy. Read more »Turin: Exposé of the laboratory primate trade and campaign launch
10 September 2009
ADI and AgireOra host screening of shocking DVD. A major new campaign to end the use of monkeys in European laboratories is being launched in Italy on 11 September. Read more »Lab Animals, Europe Decides
27 July 2009
Between January and May the European Parliament considered new rules for lab animals Read more »MEPs condemn rise in animal experiments in UK
24 July 2009
Animal experimentation rising as Government scrutiny decreases Read more »Hoy gran lanzamiento en Barcelona de campaña e investigación encubierta sobre el comercio de primate
24 July 2009
Read more »Undercover Exposé of the Primate lab trade launched in Spain
24 July 2009
Read more »ADI/NAVS is heard by the House of Lords
22 July 2009
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 »
