Correction re IPPL postcard campaign to Cameroon, Nigeria, and Malaysia

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>I accidentally left a " not " out of the description of Paragraph 3. This

>version is correct. I hope some Asians will join this postcard campaign.

>Thanks, Shirley

 

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>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 NOT 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

>

> " We need not think alike to love alike. " Francis

>David