Our Mission

Primates Incorporated will provide lifetime enriched care and improve the quality of life for monkeys who are retired from research facilities, private ownerships, and the entertainment industry.

 

Our Objectives

We plan to fulfill this mission by:

  • Researching new funding opportunities, hosting outreach events, expanding our volunteer base, and networking with the community in order to establish an innovative, spacious, and enriching primate sanctuary in southern Wisconsin.

  • Collaborating with an advisory board consisting of a combination of professionals with various backgrounds in order to provide the most appropriate accommodations for the primates

  • Collecting behavioral information on animals prior to their placement, performing behavioral observations directed at improving their well being, and providing the rehabilitation results to the public via online resources and newsletters

  • Educating the public about primate-related issues such as their habitat in nature, the importance of their psychological well-being in a captive setting, and progress made in the 3R’s of nonhuman primate research: reduction, refinement and replacement.

 

Did You Know?

  • The 2009 USDA Animal Welfare Report indicates that 70,444 primates are housed in U.S. laboratories, while 53,941 are on standby to be used in research. We don't know how many primates are involved in terminal studies.

  • What we do know is that there are researchers out there who are planning for the retirement of their primates from research as we speak.

  • Even if as few as 1% of the primates had a chance at retirement, the handful of primate sanctuaries in the country could not accommodate the primates.

  • The problem is that it is difficult to find funding to retire monkeys and it takes a lot of effort by both the sanctuaries and researchers to coordinate the retirement of the monkeys.

  • If funding is not available and/or the primate sanctuary cannot accommodate additional primates, the researcher may get turned down, and then the primates will likely be sold to another study or kept on as a breeder.

  • Primates Incorporated aims to build a sanctuary and serve as a prototype for other communities to establish their own sustainable sanctuaries so that the thousands of primates who have a chance at retirement can finally get the peaceful sanctuary they deserve.

 

Various Ways to Help Our Cause

We need to raise $600,000 to make the sanctuary a reality!

Donate Online

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Donations can also be sent by mail to:
PO Box 7384 Madison, WI 53707
We are an official nonprofit organization, and so donations are tax-deductible as charitable contributions.

 

Sponsor Our T-shirt

Donate $50, get your name on the back of this t-shirt, and receive a brown organic cotton t-shirt when it is completed! To sponsor, email amy@primatesinc.com

Primates Inc. T-shirt design

Purchase Our Fair Trade Coffee

Our Just Coffee "Upright Blend" is a natural selection of Maya super dark & Colombian coffees for survival of the fittest! $11.00 per 12 oz. bag, $25 bulk 2lb. bag.
To order, email amy@primatesinc.com

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Buy Our Wine

Organic wines from Chile - $7 goes to primates inc! Just click the ad to purchase!

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Bands - Donate a Portion of Your Show Proceeds

Book a show and donate 50% of your proceeds to Primates Incorporated! We will send you the promo materials for the event. Email amy@primatesinc.com for more info!

Host a Party

Buy the ingredients to host a dinner party at your place for your friends and family. Ask them to make a donation to Primates Incorporated instead of donating toward the cost of dinner. Your cost to buy the groceries will be a tax deduction and the amount of money you raise will likely be 5-6 times the cost of your groceries. Primates Incorporated will send you a package of promotional materials for your party as well as a tax-deduction thank you letter to you and all of your donors.

Help Us Find Land

We have teamed up with 8 other nonprofit animal sanctuaries and are in search for approximately 50-100 acres so that we will be capable of rescuing various species of animals with several nonprofit programs in place.

The sooner we have land, the sooner we can provide the many animals in need of retirement with a natural environment! Visit privatelandownernetwork.org to read the article about the sanctuary coalition.

Become a Document Editor or Internet Researcher

You can help us by volunteering 3-5 hours of your time. Please view our Volunteer section to obtain more information. See our Volunteer page for more info.
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Newsletters

Download Winter 2011 Newsletter

 

Sign Up for E-news

Email amy@primatesinc.com and type "subscribe" in the body of the email. You will be informed of our monthly progress.

 

Meetings

We will now be having our meetings online, first starting with our new e-newsletter, and then we will have a comments corner to keep the collaborative effort going.

 

Resources

Click here to explore videos, listen to podcasts and read interesting articles relating to primate issues.