FW: IPPL postcard campaign to Cameroon, Nigeria, and Malaysia

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" Shirley McGreal " <spm

primfocus: IPPL postcard campaign to

Cameroon, Nigeria, and Malaysia

 

IPPL has just started a letter-writing/postcard

campaign about the " Taiping Four " gorilla case. The

gorillas in questions were smuggled from Nigeria in

January 2002 and are now at the Taiping Zoo in

Malaysia. We are asking people to mail three

pre-printed postcards.

 

1) We believe that the smuggled gorillas originated in

Cameroon as they belong to a species not found in

Nigeria. The IPPL postcard draws the shipment to the

attention of Cameroonian authorities and asks them to

do all they can to stop the cross-border flow of all

wildlife into Nigeria and to request the return of the

gorillas to a Cameroonian sanctuary.

 

2) It is obvious that the Nigerian Ministry of the

Environment issued export certificates for the

gorillas stating falsely that they were bred in

captivity at Ibadan Zoo. In our postcards we ask the

President of Nigeria to investigate any illegal or

improper activities by Ibadan Zoo or government

representatives.

 

3) The Taiping Zoo in Malaysia must have known that

the gorillas were born at Ibadan Zoo and must also

have known that gorillas are an endangered species

caught by mother-killing (this is true of the

orangutans and gibbons of Malaysia). We are asking

people to send protest postcards to the zoo.

 

Free postcards are available from IPPL. Please send

your name and address and we'll mail you as many as

you can use. If you live in the US, overseas postcards

cost 70 cents to mail. If you have time to write a

letter, one ounce letters cost 80 cents to mail. We

would like to see some people outside the US join this

protest.

 

Shirley McGreal

 

Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman

International Primate Protection League

POB 766, Summerville SC 29484-0766, USA

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

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

 

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