Wildlife Watch Nepal works to protect Nepal's monkeys from lab exploitation

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Please contact IPPL (info) if you would like us to send you

the 5 June issue of the Nepali magazine " Wildlife Times " in PDF

format. It is a special issue devoted to monkey problems. Attention

is focused on two U.S.-funded primate centers currently being

constructed and stocked with wild-caught rhesus monkeys. One

facility, based at Lamatar in Lalitpur District, is funded by the

University of Washington Primate Center, working with the " Nepal

Biodiversity Research Society " (run by the former head of the Nepal

Natural History Society, a man named Mukesh Chalise). The other,

located at Lele, Lalitpur District, is funded by the National

Institutes of Health through the Southwest Primate Center.

 

Also check http://www.citesnepal.org/monkey_press_release.php which

includes a protest letter from Ashok Kumar of India.

 

Nepali activists are protesting both projects and would welcome our

help. Shirley McGreal

 

 

Dr. Shirley McGreal, Founder

International Primate Protection League

POB 766, Summerville SC 29484-0766, USA

Ph. 843-871-2280 Fax. 843-871-7988

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

 

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