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VOLUME CXIX Number 3 and 4 ISSN 0274-7774
Executive Editor Sue A. Leary
Managing Editor Crystal Schaeffer Copy Editor Julie Cooper-Fratrik Assistant Editor Nicole Perry Graphic Design Austin Schlack Staff Contributors Christopher Derer Crystal Miller-Spiegel Kim Paschen Design Consultants Brubaker Design
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First Word IN AUGUST 2005, AAVS and our affiliate, the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF), signed a resolution of animal protection organizations worldwide calling for an end to the use of non-human primates in biomedical research and testing. The resolution, made at the Fifth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Berlin, urged governments, regulators, industry, scientists, and research funders to accept the need to end primate use as a legitimate and essential goal; to make achieving this goal a high priority; and to work together to facilitate this. AAVS had already helped achieve legislation in the U.S. to retire chimpanzees to sanctuaries, and funded sanctuaries who cared for them and for other primates. And so, although we were no strangers to making primate research a priority, our pledge was a commitment to move forward. We began to research U.S. official records and track primate use, and became familiar with the agencies and the policies that either encourage primate research or regulate their trade and use. This issue of the AV Magazine provides a number of the pieces in the puzzle. The Special Report section is full of factual information and revelations. We will continue to work in the months and years to come, making the case to end primate research. In addition to the animal protection organizations who signed the Berlin Resolution was the famous anthropologist and champion for chimpanzees, Jane Goodall. She was a keynote speaker at the conference. Running late as usual, I ended up in the elevator with Jane and her companion. Also there was her mascot, a child’s stuffed chimpanzee, that she held tenderly. We exchanged pleasantries and I resisted the urge to gush, knowing that she was trying to focus on the talk before an audience of a thousand in just a few minutes. But her presence was calm and reassuring, and that is her gift. In spite of her philosophical differences with biomedical researchers who cling to their use of primates in experiments, they cannot help but admire her dedication and marvel at the world she opened up to all of us—the secret life of chimpanzees. Many of us have been inspired by Jane Goodall, but I am also inspired every day by my colleagues and coworkers, the AAVS Board and of course, our members. It is inconceivable that this incredible dedication and smart, informed, determined advocacy will not succeed. Meanwhile, the hurt ones—the primates who have made it out of research to sanctuaries, need our help. I will be making a gift to AAVS’s Sanctuary Fund this holiday season in honor of Jane Goodall. You might want to do the same. Thank you for caring!
Sue A. Leary, President American Anti-Vivisection Society
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