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  • From: Josh Greenman <joshg1973 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Monkeywire <monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [monkeywire] St. Lucie County board OKs expansion of chimpanzee center
  • Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:22:20 -0800 (PST)

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pchimp18dec18,0,1612341,print.story?coll=sfla-news-palm

St. Lucie County board OKs expansion of chimpanzee center

December 18, 2003

More than 260 former research chimpanzees soon will have a home in St. Lucie
County.

St. Lucie County commissioners have approved the expansion of the Center for
Captive
Chimpanzee Care. The center, west of Fort Pierce, has plans to build 11
island homes for
the research chimps, which currently are in Alamogordo, N.M.

Since the center opened in 2001, it has housed more than 20 chimpanzees
formerly owned by
the Air Force and used for space research.

Each of the islands will house about 25 chimpanzees and include shelters and
recreation
areas, according to plans submitted to the county. The center now has one
such island.

Its directors eventually plan to construct a historical museum with a space
chimp
exhibit, a public education facility and research cottages on the 200-acre
campus.

The center currently is not open to the public, but visitors will be allowed
in the
museum and education center once they're completed. The chimpanzees would be
seen through
a video monitoring system.
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