**ACTION ALERT** Please Sign Petition to Stop Monkey Business in Nepal

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The Nepali SPCA is working to stop Washington National Primate Center

(WaNPC) and the Nepal Natural History Society from building a primate

breeding center in Nepal. Monkeys from the breeding center would be

exported for biomedical research.

 

HELP OPPOSE THIS PLAN by signing the petition at

http://www.gopetition.com/online/3130.html.

 

[Note: Please sign the petition as soon as possible as it will be submitted

to the relevant officials next week.] The petition reads as follows:

 

" I am extremely concerned about the activities of the Washington National

Primate Center and the Nepal Natural History Society. I request you to take

action against this project and to:

 

· Investigate how alliances such as these can enter the country in disguise,

without permission and/or informing authorities (and make sure it won't

happen again);

 

· To clarify the country's stand on the protection of its precious fauna,

including primates;

 

· To pass animal welfare legislation as soon as possible, including a ban on

(inhumane) research on animals and export of animal species for scientific

use;

 

· To prevent overseas professionals / research centers from conducting tests

on Nepal's animal species, unless aimed at improving their welfare and/or

genuine conservation of the species. "

 

Click on " Sign the petition "

 

Additional information can be found at

 

Nepal Plans a Monkey Lab: Please Protest

http://www.ippl.org/01-03-27.html

 

Nepal Activists Say No Monkey Exports for Lab Tests

http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/78088/1/

 

Monkey business

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue148/wildlife_2.htm