Chimp Crazy Discussion #4 Fantasy Island hosted by NAPSA and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

The North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance (NAPSA) and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest have been hosting discussions by Zoom after each episode of the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy. The first discussion was not recorded. This is the fourth discussion in the series, which took place September 17, 2024, covering the forth episode of Chimp Crazy entitled "Fantasy Island."
Here are links for more information about what was discussed:
Save the Chimps website: savethechimps....
About Tonka and where he is living now: savethechimps....
Video about Tonka from Save the Chimps' You Tube channel: • Tonka at Save the Chimps
The Ohio Four
The four chimpanzees living at Union Ridge Wildlife Center were transferred to Save the Chimps in April of 2023
savethechimps....
• Ohio 4 Island release ...
Captive Primate Safety Act
The Captive Primate Safety Act would amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit any interstate or foreign commerce involving nonhuman primates for the exotic pet trade, including sale, transportation, and acquisition. It is narrowly crafted to target the commerce in and private possession of primates, and would not impact zoos and other exhibitors, universities, labs, or sanctuaries.
Currently referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
www.congress.g...
aldf.org/artic...
Use both links above to determine if your senators are currently co-sponsors
More info about the act from the Animal Welfare Institute:
awionline.org/...
NAPSA home page: primatesanctua...
NAPSA page regarding Chimp Crazy: primatesanctua...
NAPSA position statements: primatesanctua...
NAPSA page on identifying pseudo sanctuaries and other education resources: primatesanctua...
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest home page: chimpsnw.org
MSNBC op-ed: www.msnbc.com/...
Chicago Tribune op-ed: www.chicagotri...
Chimp Crazy HBO page with resources at the bottom: www.hbo.com/ch...
Companion official podcast of the Chimp Crazy HBO docuseries:
• The Official Chimp Cra...
Resource that lists incidents involving captive primates (apes and monkeys) in the U.S. since 1990 from PETA (scroll down for the primate incident link: www.peta.org/i...
Born Free exotic animal incidents that can be filtered by state and species of animal: www.bornfreeus...
Born Free 2021 paper on the primate pet trade: www.bornfreeus...
Born Free documentary about primate owners: • Finding Sanctuary: Lif...