Image: NJ Wight for the Fauna Foundation
Fauna- a
Chimpanzee Sanctuary
(Montreal)
Excellence in Animal
Welfare
Nominated by
St-Laurent Academy
In 1990, Dr. Richard Allan and Gloria Grow purchased a 100 acre
farm in the Monteregie region of Quebec, about 20 minutes from Montreal.
In 1997, the property became the not-for-profit Fauna Foundation – whose
primary objective was to create a protected environment for neglected,
abandoned or abused farmed and domestic animals and animals from entertainment,
education and research. Their primary focus is providing for chimpanzees
rescued from research. Fauna is the first sanctuary to accept HIV infected
chimpanzees from a laboratory.
All of the Fauna residents now enjoy the freedom to be
themselves -- as much as captivity allows --- and are no longer obligated
to work, provide food, entertain, act as human companions, or be tools to
teach or do research.
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