Protest Nepal's rhesus monkey labs!

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The small and troubled Kingdom of Nepal now has

two monkey laboratories focusing on utilization of rhesus monkeys.

 

According to the CIA's World Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/np.html,

Nepal is: Hindu 80.6%, Buddhist 10.7%, Muslim

4.2%, Kirant 3.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census) - the

factbook provides information about the

conditions prevailing in that nation. It notes

that, " Nepal is the only official Hindu state in the world. "

 

Monkeys have traditionally been accorded great

reverence by Hindus and Buddhists. Hence it is

surprising that two experimental laboratories are

under way in Nepal. One of them is associated

with the Washington National Primate Center,

Seattle, Washington, USA. The other, named the

Nepal Biomedical Research Center, is located at

Lalitpur, Nepal, and Pravesh Shresta is named as

its " CEO. " This center names as its " counterpart "

the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

and its mission as finding vaccines/cures for

AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer's, identifying the

causes of alcoholism and drug addiction, finding

a cure for sickle cell anemia, restoring function

to paralysed victims of spinal cord injuries,

etc. How this could be accomplished in the remote

nation of Nepal is not clear. IPPL is not aware

of any captive animal protective legislation in

Nepal (in fact there are very few captive animals).

 

Please let me know if you would like a copy of a

gaudy flyer issued by this lab (it can only be sent as an attachment).

 

Two Nepalese organizations, Animal Nepal and

Wildlife Watch, are fighting the monkeys labs.

There is an e-petition opposing removal of rhesus

monkeys from the wild. Please sign if you haven't

already. You can find it at http://www.petitiononline.com/anpo/petition.html

Please sign if you haven't already and spread the word about it.

 

US readers can contact the Nepalese Embassy in

Washington DC requesting that Nepal abandon plans

to exploit its rhesus monkeys and continue to protect them at

 

Embassy of Nepal

2131 Leroy Place, NW

Washington, DC 20008

Tel: 202 667 4550, Fax: 202 667 5534

Email: <infoinfo

 

UK readers can contact:

 

Embassy of Nepal

12A Kensington Palace Gardens

London W8 4QU

Phone: (020) 7229 1594/6231

<infoinfo

 

 

Shirley

 

Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman

International Primate Protection League

PO Box 766

Summerville, SC 29484, USA

Phone - 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988

E-mail - smcgreal, Web: www.ippl.org

 

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