Coulston's Cruel Reign Comes to a Close

After an eight year campaign led by Eric Kleiman of In Defense of Animals, The Coulston Foundation, a notorious biomedical research facility and Animal Welfare Act violator has finally gone out of business. Facing an ever gloomier financial future and unable to provide the basic care to his primates, Coulston Foundation founder, Fred Coulston, handed over the title to his primate population of 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys to Dr. Carole Noon of the humane Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care. The Center (see Fall 2001 AWI Quarterly) currently houses 21 former "space" chimpanzees and 4 other chimpanzees at its Central Florida sanctuary.