Shocking news
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To the surprise and shock of everyone who protested the Nepal 'monkey business' during the past five years, The Himalayan Times on November 18 announced that soon 25 monkeys from the Lele breeding centre will be send to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in Texas. A Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation member stated that, "[m]onkeys born in the centre are their personal property. We cannot oppose experiments on them".
This completely contradicts an earlier announcement by the Department. In a letter to diplomatic missions written in August the Department stated it would not allow monkeys to be exported for biomedical research.
The coalition will oppose the shipment both in Nepal and overseas. Letters have been send to the President and Prime Minister, as well as the airlines. A demonstration will be organized in front of the government office, and a press conference will be called. We will NOT allow innocent living beings to undergo terrible suffering in US labs!
Links
www.ippl.org - Official website of the International Primate Protection League which works for the wellbeing of primates around the world. IPPL has Field Representatives in 31 countries and supports this campaign
www.animalnepal.org - Website of Nepalese animal welfare organization, partner in the coalition
www.citesnepal.org - Website of a watchdog of Nepalese wildlife issues, partner in the coalition
www.peta.org - Website of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, international organization fighting animal abuse and promoting vegetarianism
www.all-creatures.org/saen - Website of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN), founded in 1996 to force an end to the abuse of animals in laboratories
www.primates4primates.org - Website of an organization of Australia based 'human primates helping non-human primates'
http://www.aesop-project.org - Website of Allied Effort to Save Other Primates, an international coalition dedicated to protecting apes and monkeys. Contains excellent links to anti-vivisection groups
www.primatefreedom.org - Website of The Primate Freedom Project, dedicated to ending the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical and harmful behavioural experimentation
www.novivisezione.org/mostra/index_en.htm - A saddening and upsetting photo exhibition on animals in laboratories around the world