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Primate trading occurs not only on the islands of Java and Bali, but also in North Sumatra. With IPPL support, KSBK conducted a market survey between August and October 2000. Our survey revealed that the primate trade in some regions in North Sumatra is high. The primates are traded freely and without control.

Some locations that were surveyed by KSBK members in North Sumatra were the Medan Bird Market; Pematang Siantar; Desa (Village) Bingkawan on Deli Serdang; Bukit Lawang near Gunung Leuser National Park; and Simbahe.

Medan Bird Market

The Medan Bird Market is the biggest bird market in North Sumatra. It is situated on Fl. Tobing Street, but the people prefer to call this place Jalan Bintang.

Just as they do at bird markets on Java and Bali, traders sell not just birds but also primates, even though they call the market a "bird market."

The most frequently traded primates are the slow loris, the pig-tail macaque, and the long-tailed macaque. KSBK recorded six individual slow lorises, 15 pig-tailed macaques, and 20 long-tailed macaques traded at Medan Bird Market during a check conducted on 25 October 2000.

Prices varied but were very low. A slow loris sold for around 60,000- 100,000 rupiah (US $6-10); a pig-tail macaque cost 150,000 rupiah (US $15); and 60,000-100,000 rupiah (US $6-10) was the cost of a long-tailed macaque.

Some other protected species are also traded at this bird market, such as the Bengal cat, the yellow-crested cockatoo, the black-capped lory, the Moluccan cockatoo and the sun bear. A sun bear was offered for 1,000,000 rupiah (US $105).

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SOURCE: IPPL

Life stories of primates held in U.S. primate laboratories. They are based on documents obtained from the labs.

You can read them here.

SOURCE: The Primate Freedom Project

It isn't WHEN will vivisection end? but HOW will you end it?

It begins with the right tools. In a feature series on www.animalsvoice.com , anti-vivisection activist Michael Budkie shares his extensive knowledge to help you effectively fight vivisection.

YOU CHOOSE: This feature contains both benign and graphic images of animals in laboratories; you may view graphic images by moving your mouse over the benign photos throughout the article. Otherwise, you won't see them. Links to specific sections of our nine-page feature are listed below for your convenience. Also listed toward the bottom of this page are additional resources to other web sites for information, essays, and related commentary.

Of Monkeys and Men: A Definition of Vivisection — and the Tools You'll Need to Fight It

Animal experimentation is a huge issue. Even the word we use to discuss it is large — vivisection. And if you ask someone outside the animal protection movement what this word means they probably won't know. This lack of knowledge and understanding, this unfamiliarity and hiddeness are the things that characterize the experimentation issue most accurately — even to many people inside the animal protection movement.

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SOURCE: The Animals Voice

Some Animal Activists Going Ape Over Swap Meet Chimps
KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, Nevada / George Knapp, I-Team Reporter

Please take a few minutes to send an email to George Knapp thanking him for doing such stories here in Las Vegas. He needs our support to continue to expose the exploitation of animals in our society.

You can view the TV news segment on video at the below link.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=771988&nav=168X8rZu

George Knapp: gknapp@klastv.com
Gene Ross, New Director: geross@klastv.com
KLAS TV News Room: 702-792-8888

Infant Apes Drowned in Cairo!

Please consider printing the two IPPL sponsored petitions (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat format) which are located at:
http://www.aesop-project.org/Action_Alerts/Cairo_Drowning/Infant_Apes_Drownings.htm The petitions are addressed to the Egyptian and Nigerian embassies to the United States.

Take the petitions to your animal protection organization's meetings, gatherings, etc., and also ask your friends and family to sign the petitions. Completed petitions can be returned to IPPL, or to the address for the embassy noted on each petition.

More information about the appalling drowning of the baby apes; a request for 'Letters to the Editor'; a link to IPPL's media advisory to ENN, and other information about what you can do to help is available at this URL.

Please help! It is crucial that we do all we can to prevent the same from happening to other individuals.

SOURCE: Aesop-Project

The Singapore Zoo usually gets favorable press coverage for the care it provides to its varied collection of animals. On 29 October 2000 it found itself in the headlines over its use of young chimpanzees and orangutans as photo-props. Zoo-goers can pay a fee and pose with young animals. It is impossible to get strong adult animals to cooperate with the "photo-prop" scenario. Therefore young animals are used.

Unfortunately for the zoo, photographer Karl Ammann visited one day and took the photos below. His denunciation of the zoo attracted the attention of Singapore's leading newspaper, the Straits Times. Ammann told the press that it was totally unnatural for baby apes to sit on strangers' laps.

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SOURCE: IPPL

http://www.lpag.org/

Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group - Memorials: http://www.lpag.org/memorials/memorialsHome.html

Five years ago this week, Rachel Weiss got her wish. The first chimpanzee to develop AIDS was euthanized at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center in Atlanta, one of the United States premier research facilities.

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PETA has received information that an orangutan act headed by former Las Vegas performer Bobby Berosini is being considered for an engagement at the Flamingo Hilton Reno in February.

To learn about Bobby Berosini

SOURCE: PETA

This year the U.S. Census Bureau conducted a census. The government's Census 2000 is nearly finished by traditional standards, yet it is far from complete. There are many complex individuals still to be counted, including some 2,000 to 3,000 nonhuman great apes.

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For more information visit: The Great Ape Project

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NIH-"owned" Chimpanzee Left Sick and Untreated to Die, IDA Charges
IDA Demands Federal Shutdown of Primate Testing Lab

Alamogordo, NM- Another chimpanzee has died at The Coulston Foundation (TCF) after allegedly being left sick for days without receiving veterinary care, In Defense of Animals (IDA) announced today. The ten-year old chimpanzee named Ray was the eighth known chimpanzee to die at TCF over the last year, and the 34th since TCF's incorporation in 1993.

for more information

SOURCE: In Defense of Animals

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