The following mail was sent to me.

Dear all,

Today (sunday February 9th) two Rhesus Macaques
escaped from the BPRC - Europe's largest primate
centre in the Netherlands. The two animals were housed
in one of the cages outside. How they got out is not
yet known. In the course of the day, one monkey was
caugth, using a tranquiliser dart, the other is still
on the run at the moment of this writing.

Ofcourse this is a great moment to get into action
again! I made a letter both in Dutch as in English,
demanding instant closure of the BPRC and the release
of all 1600 animals to Stichting AAP or other
sanctuaries of our liking.

Help me by sending the letter below to info@minocw.nl,
which is the ministry that has the power to close down
the BPRC. Make sure the subject says: "T.a.v. mevr.
Maria van der Hoeven" (this is the person quilty of
letting the BPRC continue to torture those poor
animals!)

Thanks!!!

ps: don't forget to put your own name under the
letter!!
pps: please send an e-mail to
Lies-Lies-Lies@VivisectionSucks.com when you helped us
out. That way we can see how many e-mails have been
send to M. v/d Hoeven.
ppps: if you see any mistakes when it comes to
spelling...that could be right, since I'm Dutch :)
Please take the time to correct any misspelling.
Thanks!
More info: www.bprcmoetdicht.org (in English)

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Dear Maria v/d Hoeven,

With absolute horror I heard about the escape of two
Rhesus macaques from the BPRC- Biomedical Primate
Research Centre in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.

Because of this incident I have a couple of questions:

- How is it possible that two monkeys can escape from
the largest primate center of Europe? Doesn't this
show the incapability of the BPRC housing any animals
and therefor also taking care of any animals?

- Were the two monkeys infected with a disease? If so,
which disease and did they form any threat to the
health of humans?

- Can you inform me about the welfare of the caught
monkey? I have no doubt that hunting down the animal
and then tranquilise it with a dart, seriously
distressed the animal! Will this monkey get extra
care? If so, please inform me about what extra care
this poor animal will get then.

- It's not the first time animals escape from the
BPRC. We can only wait till a monkey which is infected
with a very dangerous disease escapes and spreads this
disease among the Dutch population. Is it not so that
you can only guarantee the safety of the animals of
the BPRC and the citizens of Rijswijk in particular
and the Netherlands as a whole by closing down the
BPRC in Rijswijk?

Because of yet another misstep of the BPRC in a very
short time (think of the death of Walter and Coen last
year....!) I urge you to immediatly close down the
BPRC and release all animals to Stichting AAP or
another sanctuary of my liking!

It's simply criminal that 1600 animals are still being
used in midieval experiments. Please send me a
personal reaction a.s.a.p.

Yours truly,


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BPRC moet dicht, BPRC gaat dicht!
http://www.bprcmoetdicht.org


FYI: BPRC= Bio Primate Research Center
KOEN= name of ape that was used for hiv test and was isolated for years from other apes. After the tests Koen died under suspisious circumstances.

Below===: BPRC has to close, BPRC will close!

The following mail was recieved by me:



Animal friends,

Thanks for joining this action.

When this email action started we didn’t know what to aspect.
The only thing I knew was that a lot of people had another reason to close the biggest monkey-center in Europe, the BPRC (Biomedical Primate Research Center) in Rijswijk (the Netherlands).


The opportunity to protest was taken by a lot of people.
When we started this we hoped to get a 300-400 emails.
A week after the start this had grown to a world wide protest against BPRC.
We wanted to mention every country we got reactions from, but there a to many to mention here.

We’ve got reactions from all over the world, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, The middle east, North-, Middle-, South America, from everywhere.!

Just after a week the reactions where beyond our expectations.
More than 550 mails went to the ministry, one of the mails was signed by 109 persons!
More than 700 people from all over the world have protested!

E-mails keep coming in! That is why we extended the action to the 21st of February.

So if you haven’t send a mail yet; this is your chance!