In the 1970's, NYBC worked with the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research to create Vilab II to obtain and breed chimpanzees for use in medical research.

Vilab II is a complex of laboratories, staff housing and screened-in chimp bungalows set in the rain forest about 40 miles from Monrovia.

The chimps where used to find a cure for hepatitis and other diseases.

For years, NYBC used these chimpanzees in medical research, infecting many of them with hepatitis viruses. After decades of confinement, these chimpanzees do not have the skills to survive in the wild. They are completely reliant on humans for survival, but despite previously committing to the lifetime care of these chimpanzees, NYBC recently withdrew all funding for the care of the chimpanzees in March. Effectively they have left these poor chimpanzees to suffer from dehydration and starvation.

Chimps are the only monkeys are able to be infected with hepatitis.

While the studies took place USA banned the import of caught in the wild chimps to The States.

So when the tests ended NYBC left the ill chimps on six small islands.

Fun fact: Chimpanzees cannot swim... So they can't leave the islands.

The chimps rely on humans to survive, they were taken to Vilab II so young they have almost none survivor skills.

NYBC refuses to help so the little guys receive food only from volunteers.

Alfred M. Prince said that the NYBC will take care of the chimps, but after his death NYBC claims he did not actually mean what he said.