Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company behind a massive monkey-breeding facility planned in ...

A new report is the latest to bolster long-standing allegations that many long-tailed macaques imported into the U.S. for biomedical research were illegally caught from the wild and falsely labeled as ...

DECATUR COUNTY, Ga. — A South Georgia district attorney has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit over a proposed monkey breeding facility in the City of Bainbridge. Safer Human Medicine ...

CHARLESTON — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace said she supports a shutdown of a federal-owned monkey breeding colony on a South Carolina barrier island but does not want “to see them slaughtered” if the ...

A number of recent articles in the AWI Quarterly have addressed issues related to the use of nonhuman primates in research: from an alleged international monkey-laundering scheme, to a research ...