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MONTH: July-August 2007
FoA acquires Whale Rescue Team, seeks to reclaim Primarily Primates animals
The Whale Rescue Team, founded in 1984
by Peter Wallerstein, on July 1, 2007 became Marine Animal Rescue, a project
of Friends of Animals. Marine Animal Rescue will continue to rescue and
rehabilitate stranded marine mammals and birds from Marina del Rey, the
beaches of Venice and Santa Monica, and the port of San Pedro.
FoA, based in Darien, Connecticut, acquired
the Whale Rescue Team 11 months after reaching an agreement to take over
the Primarily Primates sanctuary near San Antonio, Texas, but only two
months after taking possession of the sanctuary, which was directed by
a court-appointed receiver from mid-October 2006 through April 2007.
FoA on August 6, 2007 sued Chimp Haven,
of Shreveport, Louisiana, seeking return of seven chimps who were relocated
from Primarily Primates by the receiver. The seven were formerly part
of a research colony at Ohio State University, but were sent to Primarily
Primates in early 2006.
Chimps Inc., of Eugene, Oregon, the International Primate Protection League, and New Mexico land owner Marguerite Gordon on June 25, 2007 sued Primarily Primates, respectively seeking to keep two chimps, 12 gibbons, and a longhorn steer whom the receiver sent to them.