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Please help save Guyana's monkeys.
Feb 7, 2006
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Write Letter
Location: United States
 
Dear Animal Advocate:

International Primate Protection League (IPPL) has recently learned that a shipment of 500 monkeys may be leaving Guyana for Miami International Airport, USA. As a result, we have called on Guyana to ban all exports of monkeys.

Guyana is notorious for exporting squirrel and capuchin monkeys, most of which are used in fatal experimentation in research laboratories, including secretive U.S. military laboratories that use monkeys in cruel bio-warfare experimentation.

On Friday 27 January, I was alerted to the pending export of a large number of primates from Guyana. According to our contact,

"I work at MIA and am hearing talk about 500 monkeys being shipped from Guyana to MIA next week. I find this very disturbing."

IPPL has verified that indeed a large shipment of Guyanan wildlife is expected to reach Miami in the immediate future, including many monkeys. It is not clear if some or all of the wild creatures will be kept in the United States, or whether they will be re-exported through Miami to another country.

Because the U.S. bans the pet trade in imported monkeys, most of the unfortunate monkeys imported to the United States end up in painful experimentation. Users of monkeys in bio-warfare experiments are apparently killing off monkeys so fast that they want more and more monkeys to replace them.

One U.S. laboratory that uses imported squirrel monkeys in painful experiments is the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, a secretive facility that studies viral diseases in monkeys. In 2004, 13 monkeys died overnight when a heating malfunction sent the temperature soaring over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius).

A scientist who observed Guyana's monkey trade at close quarters in the 1990s was appalled at the cruelty of the trade. He reported, "Their mammal, bird, and reptile collection methods were remarkably simple but devastating in NW and NE Guyana. For example, wildlife trappers completely decimated ALL squirrel monkeys along a 75 km stretch of the Berbice River in NE Guyana. I estimate that 1200 animals were lost in only two weeks of trapping! Housing conditions for the trapped monkeys were inhumane and frankly made me quite ill to observe. The treatment of the infant squirrel monkeys led to what I'm sure was at least 90% mortality. My sense of the situation was that squirrel monkeys were disappearing out of the forests as fast as they could be
trapped."

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Please write letters to the President of Guyana, the other officials named below, and the Ambassador of Guyana in your country of residence. Airmail postage from the United States to Guyana is now 84 cents, and letters within the United States cost 39 cents to mail.

ADDRESSES:

President Bharrat Jagdeo
Office of the President
New Garden Street
Georgetown
GUYANA
Tel: 592-225-1330-8 or 592-226-7811
Fax: 592-226-3395

His Excellency Roland W. Bullen
Ambassador of Guyana to the United States 2490 Tracy Place NW Washington, DC
20008 USA
Tel: 202-265-6900

The Director
Guyana Ministry of Tourism, Industry & Commerce
229 South Road
Lacytown
Georgetown
GUYANA
Tel: 592-226-2505
Fax: 592-225-9898

His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs
254 South Road & New Garden Street
Georgetown
GUYANA
Tel: 592-226-1607
Fax: 592-225-9192
Email: minfor@guyana.net.gy

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Thank you, as always,
Shirley

Dr. Shirley McGreal
International Primate Protection League (IPPL) P.O. Box 766 Summerville, SC
29484-0766 USA
Phone: 843-871-2280   Fax: 843-871-7988
Web: www.ippl.org      E-mail: smcgreal@ippl.org

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