NIH has no plans to move lab chimps to sanctuary, despite federal ruling

The National Institutes of Health says it has no plans to move 26 former lab chimpanzees to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana, even though a federal judge ruled in 2022 that the agency was violating federal law by keeping the chimps housed at a lab in New Mexico.

Rana Smith, president and CEO of Chimp Haven, the sanctuary where these chimps are supposed to go, joins us to discuss.