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The Fauna Foundation

(Fall 2001)—On a 135-acre farm in Carignan, Quebec, Canada, the Fauna Founda-tion is home to 15 former "research chimpanzees" who are HIV- or Hepatitis C- positive, and almost 400 other animals ranging from guinea pigs to llamas.

Founders of the Fauna Foundation, Dr. Richard Allen, DVM, and Gloria Grow, first rescued a carriage horse named Jethro from a meat packing plant. They later decided to build a sanctuary for retired biomedical "laboratory chimps" after visiting Roger and Deborah Fouts’ "Caring for Chimpanzees" program at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute in Washington state.

With the help of the Foutses and Jim Mahoney from the now defunct Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) at New York University, they constructed and filled the first retirement sanctuary for chimpanzees used in biomedical research.

Today, Annie, Billy, Binky, Chance, Donna Rae, Jean, Jethro, Pablo, Pepper, Petra, Rachel, Regis, Sue Ellen, Tom and Yoko —all former victims of cruel and unnecessary animal experimentation — live in a caring, comfortable home where they are treated with the respect and compassion they were so long denied.

The Fauna Foundation is also committed to creating a protected environment for neglected, abused farm, domestic and circus animals, and for wildlife. The Foundation also works to ensure that threatened and endangered natural habitats be conserved and restored. Other inhabitants of the sanctuary include coyotes, goats, frogs and toads, ducks, saw-whet owls, flickers and many other fauna.

According to the Foundation, there are about 2,000 chimps in the U.S. alone, with some 1,700 individuals in research labs. Sadly, only a little more than 100 chimpanzees have made it out to sanctuaries such as the Fauna Foundation and the others featured in this article. The chimps and other primates who have found a home at these sanctuaries are at last receiving the care, respect and dignity they so richly deserve.

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