Please support the BUAV in its campaign to end the cruel exploitation of macaques !Action Alert!

Please support the BUAV in its campaign to end the cruel exploitation of macaques in Indonesia:

Visit the BUAV web site for further information, photos and video:

http://www.buav.org/chainofsuffering/

How you can help:

1) Write to the President of Indonesia to ask him to place an immediate ban on the capture, breeding and export of long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques destined for the research industry.

Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President of the Republic of Indonesia
Istana Negara
Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara
Jakarta Pusat 10010
Indonesia

Email: presiden@ri.go.id

2) Write letters to the Indonesian embassy in your country calling on the government of Indonesia to place an immediate ban on the capture, breeding and export of long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques destined for the research industry. Click here for the contact details of Indonesian embassies around the world:

http://www.indonesia.go.id/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=214

3) Write to the CITES Secretariat requesting that CITES a)carry out its own investigation into the Indonesian primate trade and, b) suspend Indonesia's membership of CITES pending the outcome of this investigation:

CITES Secretariat
International Environment House
11 Chemin des Anémones
CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva
Switzerland

4) If you live in a country that has imported primates from Indonesia such as the USA, Japan and China, please write to the CITES Enforcement Authority in your country asking it to ban the import of primates originating from Indonesia following concerns raised by the BUAV’s investigation that Indonesia is failing to comply with CITES regulations. See CITES web site for contact information:

http://www.cites.org/common/directy/e_directy.html

5) Write to the headquarters of the following airlines requesting that they adopt a policy to stop transporting primates from Indonesia for the research industry. Please also write to the airline’s office in your own country:

Cho Yangho
CEO and Chairman
Korean Air
1370, Gonghang-dong, Gangseo-gu
Seoul, 157-712
South Korea

Lucio Tan
Chairman and CEO
Philippine Airlines
Philippine Airlines Center
Legazpi Street Legaspi Village
Makati 0750
Philippines

Mr. Shao Yong Liu
Chairman
China Southern Airlines
Jichang Road
Guangzhou, 510405
China