Girlie
07-19-06, 05:51 PM
From: "Shirley McGreal" <smcgreal@ippl.org>
The small and troubled Kingdom of Nepal now has
two monkey laboratories focusing on utilization of rhesus monkeys.
According to the CIA's World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/np.html,
Nepal is: Hindu 80.6%, Buddhist 10.7%, Muslim
4.2%, Kirant 3.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census) - the
factbook provides information about the
conditions prevailing in that nation. It notes
that, "Nepal is the only official Hindu state in the world."
Monkeys have traditionally been accorded great
reverence by Hindus and Buddhists. Hence it is
surprising that two experimental laboratories are
under way in Nepal. One of them is associated
with the Washington National Primate Center,
Seattle, Washington, USA. The other, named the
Nepal Biomedical Research Center, is located at
Lalitpur, Nepal, and Pravesh Shresta is named as
its "CEO." This center names as its "counterpart"
the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
and its mission as finding vaccines/cures for
AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer's, identifying the
causes of alcoholism and drug addiction, finding
a cure for sickle cell anemia, restoring function
to paralysed victims of spinal cord injuries,
etc. How this could be accomplished in the remote
nation of Nepal is not clear. IPPL is not aware
of any captive animal protective legislation in
Nepal (in fact there are very few captive animals).
Please let me know if you would like a copy of a
gaudy flyer issued by this lab (it can only be sent as an attachment).
Two Nepalese organizations, Animal Nepal and
Wildlife Watch, are fighting the monkeys labs.
There is an e-petition opposing removal of rhesus
monkeys from the wild. Please sign if you haven't
already. You can find it at http://www.petitiononline.com/anpo/petition.html
Please sign if you haven't already and spread the word about it.
US readers can contact the Nepalese Embassy in
Washington DC requesting that Nepal abandon plans
to exploit its rhesus monkeys and continue to protect them.
Embassy of Nepal
2131 Leroy Place, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202 667 4550, Fax: 202 667 5534
Email: <mailto:info@nepalembassyusa.org>info@nepalembassyusa.org
UK readers can contact:
Embassy of Nepal
12A Kensington Palace Gardens
London W8 4QU
Phone: (020) 7229 1594/6231
<mailto:info@nepembassy.org.uk>info@nepembassy.org.uk
Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman
International Primate Protection League
PO Box 766
Summerville, SC 29484, USA
Phone - 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988
E-mail - smcgreal@ippl.org, Web: www.ippl.org
"So long as life lasts, dashed hopes stand a
chance. We need only get over that current
feeling that says, 'Where there is life there
must be hopelessness.' We must ever answer the
question 'But what can I do?' with the
realization that restoring the Earth, making
things better, renews and heals us at the same time."
* David Brower
The small and troubled Kingdom of Nepal now has
two monkey laboratories focusing on utilization of rhesus monkeys.
According to the CIA's World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/np.html,
Nepal is: Hindu 80.6%, Buddhist 10.7%, Muslim
4.2%, Kirant 3.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census) - the
factbook provides information about the
conditions prevailing in that nation. It notes
that, "Nepal is the only official Hindu state in the world."
Monkeys have traditionally been accorded great
reverence by Hindus and Buddhists. Hence it is
surprising that two experimental laboratories are
under way in Nepal. One of them is associated
with the Washington National Primate Center,
Seattle, Washington, USA. The other, named the
Nepal Biomedical Research Center, is located at
Lalitpur, Nepal, and Pravesh Shresta is named as
its "CEO." This center names as its "counterpart"
the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
and its mission as finding vaccines/cures for
AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer's, identifying the
causes of alcoholism and drug addiction, finding
a cure for sickle cell anemia, restoring function
to paralysed victims of spinal cord injuries,
etc. How this could be accomplished in the remote
nation of Nepal is not clear. IPPL is not aware
of any captive animal protective legislation in
Nepal (in fact there are very few captive animals).
Please let me know if you would like a copy of a
gaudy flyer issued by this lab (it can only be sent as an attachment).
Two Nepalese organizations, Animal Nepal and
Wildlife Watch, are fighting the monkeys labs.
There is an e-petition opposing removal of rhesus
monkeys from the wild. Please sign if you haven't
already. You can find it at http://www.petitiononline.com/anpo/petition.html
Please sign if you haven't already and spread the word about it.
US readers can contact the Nepalese Embassy in
Washington DC requesting that Nepal abandon plans
to exploit its rhesus monkeys and continue to protect them.
Embassy of Nepal
2131 Leroy Place, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202 667 4550, Fax: 202 667 5534
Email: <mailto:info@nepalembassyusa.org>info@nepalembassyusa.org
UK readers can contact:
Embassy of Nepal
12A Kensington Palace Gardens
London W8 4QU
Phone: (020) 7229 1594/6231
<mailto:info@nepembassy.org.uk>info@nepembassy.org.uk
Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman
International Primate Protection League
PO Box 766
Summerville, SC 29484, USA
Phone - 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988
E-mail - smcgreal@ippl.org, Web: www.ippl.org
"So long as life lasts, dashed hopes stand a
chance. We need only get over that current
feeling that says, 'Where there is life there
must be hopelessness.' We must ever answer the
question 'But what can I do?' with the
realization that restoring the Earth, making
things better, renews and heals us at the same time."
* David Brower