IPPL News Aug05.indd - International Primate Protection League
IPPL News Aug05.indd - International Primate Protection League
IPPL News Aug05.indd - International Primate Protection League
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<strong>IPPL</strong>: Who We Are<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> is an international grassroots<br />
wildlife protection organization. Our<br />
mission for over 30 years has been to<br />
promote the conservation and protection<br />
of all nonhuman primates, including<br />
apes, monkeys, and lemurs, around the<br />
world.<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> has been operating an animal<br />
sanctuary in Summerville, South Carolina,<br />
since 1977. There, 30 gibbons (the<br />
smallest apes) live in happy retirement.<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> is also proud to support a<br />
number of other wildlife groups and<br />
primate rescue centers in countries where<br />
monkeys and apes are native, to reduce<br />
the illegal trafficking in these animals.<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> was founded in 1973 by Dr.<br />
Shirley McGreal, <strong>IPPL</strong>’s Chairwoman.<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> <strong>News</strong> first appeared in 1974; it is<br />
published three times a year.<br />
MEET <strong>IPPL</strong>’S E.T.!<br />
E.T. was born at the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine<br />
and Surgery in <strong>Primate</strong>s in Sterling Forest, New York, in 1983,<br />
soon after the famous movie about an extra-terrestrial being<br />
visiting earth was made. E.T.’s parents are Blackie and Penny,<br />
who also now live at <strong>IPPL</strong>—they are around 50 years old!<br />
The three gibbons were all “retired” together from<br />
research and reached the <strong>IPPL</strong> sanctuary in 1984. E.T.<br />
was then a tiny baby clinging to her mother. Now she is<br />
a beautiful adult gibbon and lives happily with her gentle<br />
companion, Donny.<br />
IN THIS ISSUE:<br />
ƒAction Item!<br />
Page<br />
ƒSaudi orangutan: confiscated! 3<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong>: 30 years ago 3<br />
CITES: Nigerian trade embargo 4<br />
ƒMonkey used in taco ads 5<br />
ƒCERCOPAN monkey sancturary 6<br />
Member profile: Kevin Bernhardt 8<br />
<strong>IPPL</strong> advisor writes about chimps 9<br />
“Taiping Four” gorillas on display 10<br />
ƒProtests re smuggled orangutans 10<br />
Korean lab monkey deaths 11<br />
Kalaweit gibbon sactuary, Borneo 12<br />
“Wildlife refuge” director indicted 13<br />
ƒNew laws for Aussie zoos 13<br />
Highland Farm sanctuary, Thailand 17<br />
U.S. primate import statistics 18<br />
New book: “Hugging the Chimps” 19<br />
<strong>Primate</strong> books for children 19<br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Primate</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>League</strong><br />
P.O. Box 766<br />
Summerville SC 29484<br />
USA<br />
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