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Austria moves to ban use of great apes
No great apes are currently being used in Austria and this may become part of their law.
Following the voluntary retirement of the only Austrian colony of laboratory chimpanzees in 2004, the government is now suggesting that their national legislation should be amended to formally ban the use of great apes.
Education, Science and Culture Minister Elisabeth Gehrer commented, “Great apes are the animals most closely related to humans. It is of particular concern for me that there is this explicit prohibition. This will ensure that no such animal experiments are carried out in the future either.”