UL Lafayette and nonprofit plan to resettle 220 retired research chimps

LAFAYETTE - A partnership with the University of Lafayette has announced an agreement to relocate more than 200 retired research chimpanzees to its new sanctuary in northern Georgia.Project Chimps, the nonprofit organization, along with the university’s New Iberia Research Center began negotiating the agreement more than two years ago with the ultimate goal being to resettle the largest population of apes from a U.S. research center. The chimpanzees were retired from research in 2015,