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- President and Founder, Amy Kerwin

Mission: Primates Incorporated improves the quality of life for monkeys retiring from research facilities, private ownerships, and the entertainment industry, We will fulfill this mission by constructing an enriching sanctuary in Wisconsin that will provide lifetime quality care to monkeys in need of a spacious sanctuary.

Vision: To see a primate sanctuary built in every state because the need is that great!

THE NEED TO HELP MONKEYS:

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.