Liberia, March 27 -- Second Chance Chimpanzee Refuge Liberia, based in Margibi County and with a set of estuarine sanctuary islands in the Farmington and Grand Bassa rivers, is celebrating 11 years of caring for dozens of very special chimps.

Most of the chimps at SCCRL, which is run by international animal protection organization Humane World for Animals, were either stolen from the wild as infants and sold to a nearby laboratory or born in captivity as part of the laboratory's breeding colony. At that facility, they endured decades of captivity in barren cages, as well as hundreds of invasive liver biopsies and being repeatedly tranquilized or anaesthetized.

In 2015, after the experiments were ended, the lab relocated the chimps on th...