TORN FROM THE
WILD
BUAV
: PLZ TAKE ACTION; TORN FROM THE WILD- NEPAL MONKEYS TORTURED/ USED
FOR VIVISECTION
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Call
for CITES to investigate Cambodia’s primate
trade
TORN
FROM THE WILD
The BUAV has obtained shocking
never-seen-before footage of the trapping of wild monkeys in
Cambodia destined for factory farms supplying the international
research industry.
Appallingly, the monkeys were even hunted inside a nature reserve
in Cambodia — supposedly a place of safety. The hunters used
catapults and beat the tree trunks with oars to scare the monkeys
out of the trees and drive them into nets. Then screaming in
terror, or rigid with fear, these highly intelligent creatures were
grabbed by their tails, stuffed into bags and stored in the bottom
of a boat before being sold to a dealer of a monkey farm.
The BUAV is working hard to block this trade in the countries where
the monkeys are finally shipped. This campaign is vitally important
if we are to break the chain of pain and misery — from the forests
where the wild populations of monkeys live freely, to the breeding
farms and, finally, the laboratories where they are
imprisoned,
Please help the BUAV end this cruel and sickening trade.
1. Write to the Prime Minister of Cambodia to ask him to place an
immediate ban on the capture, breeding and export of long-tailed
macaques destined for the research industry.
The Honorable Samdech Hun Sen
Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia
Office of the Council of Ministers
41, Russian Federation Blvd.
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
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2. Write letters to the Cambodian embassy in your country calling
on the government of Cambodia to place an immediate ban on the
capture, breeding and export of long-tailed macaques destined for
the research industry. Click here for the contact details of
Cambodian embassies around the world:
In the UK, please write to:
His Excellency Hor Nambora
Ambassador of Cambodia
The Royal Embassy of Cambodia
64 Brondesbury Park
Willesden Green
London NW6 7AT
email: cambodianembassy@btconnect.com
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3. Write to the CITES Secretariat requesting it carries out an
investigation into Cambodia's trade in macaques and, if the BUAV's
findings are confirmed, then to encourage CITES members to suspend
CITES related trade with Cambodia.
CITES Secretariat
International Environment House
11Chemin des Anémones
CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva
Switzerland
email: info@cites.org
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4. If you live in a country that has imported or is importing
primates from Cambodia, please write to your CITES authority asking
them not to import macaques from Cambodia, on conservation
grounds.
UK
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
email: Hilary.Benn@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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USA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Management Authority
4401 N. Fairfax Drive
Room 212
ARLINGTON, VA 22203-3247
email: managementauthority@fws.gov
5. If you can, please send a donation as well, so we can afford to
continue investigations like this and bring the brutal trade to a
halt. Click here to donate to the BUAV »
For further information, read our briefing BUAV investigation of
the primate trade in Cambodia go to the bottom in the home page of
: www.buav.org/e_projecty.php »
At a breeding farm, other monkeys are seen in bare metal cages —
including nursing mothers with babies, bred to be sold to the
research industry.
The film is further evidence of the appalling cruelty that
continues to be inflicted on wild monkeys for the international
research industry. It also unveils the exploitation of indigenous
populations of macaques (this type of monkey) in Asia, the
industrial style breeding of monkeys, and the poor conditions in
which they are kept that often fail to meet international
guidelines on animal welfare, and fail to meet the monkeys' complex
psychological and behavioural needs.
The BUAV initiated the investigation as part of its campaign to
expose the lifetime of suffering caused by the ever increasing
demand for primates from animal research companies and institutions
across the world. This investigation underlines that it is not only
in labs that research primates suffer. It is important that public
and politicians are made aware of this whole picture, particularly
since important decisions about the use of primates in research are
shortly to be made as the EU rules governing animal experiments are
revised.
