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Stolen For Research: Stop Colombia's Trade In Night Monkeys

Wild-caught monkeys in Cambodia are stuffed in mesh bags and crammed into boat bottoms. BUAV's Torn From The Wild, trapped wild monkeys in Cambodia destined for factory farms that supply the international research industry.

Colombia's night monkeys are captured for sale to medical researchers. MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS


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UPDATE: 4,000 Monkeys Gain Salvation When Researcher Loses Trap Permits

7/5/12 - They’re wide-eyed, cute, and annually stolen by the thousands from Colombia’s Amazon jungle. Night monkeys sell for $50 a head to malaria researchers, even though a cure is nowhere in sight. Dr. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo considers the animals (also owl monkeys) prime experimentation models.

Uh-oh. The renowned malaria researcher just lost permits to snatch wild owl monkeys for research at his Institute of Immunology Foundation of Colombia (FIDIC), a jungle lab that pays poor Peruvian and Brazilian natives to illegally move monkeys over unguarded borders. Colombia’s Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca revoked Patarroyo’s permits to trap up to 4,000 night monkeys until 2015!

Thanks to all Kinship Circle participants who pressured authorities to clamp down on cross-border commerce that threatens primates in the Amazon. Primary credit goes to Angela Maldonado ;– a 15-year pioneer in the study of wild monkeys who filed charges against Patarroyo ;– and her organization Fundacion Entropika for exposing FIDIC workers who discard post-experiment animals without rehabilitation or environmental safeguards.

Undercover investigators with Animal Defenders International (ADI) obtained videotape of FIDIC captures on the Amazon. Trappers stalk owl monkeys by night. Forest trees are rigged with nets to snare the tiny creatures. Shoved into mesh sacks, they shriek and claw while piled on small boats that take them away from native forests, forever. Footage inside FIDIC shows distressed monkeys isolated in dingy metal cages.

The Tribunal ruled to deny permits to Patarroyo because he violated Cambodia’s pledge to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna). Patarroyo apparently infringed Colombia’s National Resources Code as far back as 1984.

Judge Elizabeth Lozzi Claudia Moreno also denounced the Colombian Ministry of Environment and the Corporation for Sustainable Development of Southern Amazonia (CORPOAMAZONIA) for failure to oversee FIDIC, stating that the oversight agencies had instead facilitated the lab.

According to Fundacion Entropika, as reported by International Primate Protection League: "The court’s decision is the first step to stop the illegal trade in night monkeys, as current permits were revoked. However once the defendants submit their appeals, the law case will be transferred to another court where bureaucracy and corruption are high. For this reason, we have to initiate the next legal actions to guarantee that the court’s ruling is implemented."

SOURCE OF UPDATE:
A legal victory for night monkeys
4,000 wild monkeys saved from laboratory experiments
Patarroyo revoke permission to use monkeys in malaria

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Honorable Ambassadors of the Embassies of Peru, Brazil and Colombia:

I respectfully ask ambassadors of Colombia, Peru and Brazil to take strong action against traffic in night monkeys for animal research. Please demand that local and national authorities investigate this huge cross-border commerce that threatens nocturnal primates of the Amazon.

I was shocked to learn that 1,600 or more night monkeys are annually captured and sold for $50 per animal to the FIDIC, Immunology Institute of Colombia Foundation for use in malaria studies. Dr. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo has conducted the experiments for years without oversight or rehabilitation plans. Some monkeys, sick and frail, are thrown back into jungle.

The research itself has proven largely futile, with no cure for malaria in sight. Nocturnal primates, induced with malaria inside a stressful laboratory setting, cannot produce clinical symptoms or data relevant to human disease processes.

Clearly, this trade is inhumane, with utter disregard for native primate populations. FIDIC primate sales support poor Peruvian and Brazilian natives just across the Amazon River. Rather than turn a blind eye, governments ought to support the work of primate conservationists like Angela Maldonado, recipient of the 2010 Whitley Fund For Nature’s Green Oscar, for her efforts to find legitimate livelihoods for the Tikuna tribe.

Please let your country's authorities know that citizens worldwide strongly object to the black market trade in night monkeys.

Thank you,

YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY

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Write to the embassies of PERU, BRAZIL and COLOMBIA stationed in the country where you live.
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EMBASSIES OF PERU
Embassy of Peru In The United States
1700 Massachusetts Ave., N.W
Washington D.C. 20036
ph: 202-833-9860 to 9869
fax: 202-659-8124
email: webadmin@embassyofperu.us
Ambassador Luis Miguel Valdivieso Montano: emoscoso@embassyofperu.us
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Embassy of Peru In The United Kingdom
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London SW1X 9SP
ph: 00 44 20 7235 1917, 0207235 25
fax: 00 44 20 7235 4463
email: postmaster@peruembassy-uk.com
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Embassy of Peru In Canada
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Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4
ph: 613-238-1777
fax: 613-232-3062
email: emperuca@bellnet.ca
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email: perou.ambassade@amb-perou.fr
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Embassy Of Peru In Australia
40 Brisbane Avenue
Barton ACT 2600
PO Box 106
Red Hill ACT 2603
ph: (02) 6273 7351, 6273 7352
fax: (02) 6273 7354
email: embassy@embaperu.org.au
WEBSITE: www.embaperu.org.au
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EMBASSIES OF BRAZIL
Embassy Of Brazil In The United States
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Consulate General Of Brazil In The United Kingdom
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ph: +44(0)20 7659 1550
fax: +44(0)20 7659 1554
email: visa@consbraslondres.com
WEBSITE: consbraslondres.com
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Embassy Of Brazil In Canada
450 Wilbrod Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6M8, Canada
ph: 1-613-237-1090
fax: 1-613-237-6144
email: mailbox@brasembottawa.org
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Embassy Of Brazil In France
34, Cours Albert 1er
Paris, France 75008
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fax: 01 42 89 03 45 / 01 53 75 05 46
email: ambassadeur@bresil.org
WEBSITE: bresil.org
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Embassy Of Brazil In Canberra, Australia
19, Forster Crescent
Yarralumla
ACT 2600, Australia
ph: (02) 6273 2372
fax: (02) 6273 2375
email: visaemb@brazil.org.au
WEBSITE: brazil.org.au
SOURCE: embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/Australia#1371

EMBASSIES OF COLOMBIA
Embassy Of Colombia In The United States
2118 Leroy Place NW
Washington DC 20008
ph: 202-387-8338
fax: 202-232 8643
email: ewashington@cancilleria.gov.co
WEBSITE: colombiaemb.org
SOURCE: embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/UnitedStates#2295

Embassy Of Colombia In England (UK)
3 Hans Crescent
London SW1X 0LN
ph: 020 7589 9177, 020 7589 5037
fax: 020 7581 1829, 020 7589 4718
email: elondres@cancilleria.gov.co
WEBSITE: colombianembassy.co.uk
SOURCE: embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/UnitedKingdom#2744

Embassy Of Colombia In Canada
360 Albert St #1002, Floor 10
Ottawa, ON K1R 7T2, Canada
ph: 613-230-3760
fax: 613-230-4416
email: eottawa@minrelext.gov.co
WEBSITE: embajadacolombia.ca
SOURCE: embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/Canada#1210

Embassy Of Colombia In France
22, Rue de LElysee
Paris, France 75008
ph: 009 33 1 42654608
fax: 009 33 1 42661860
SOURCE: embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/France#1214

Embassy Of Colombia In Australia
PO BOX 227 CIVIC SQ POSTSHOP
ACT 2608 Canberra
ph: (02) 6230 4203, (02) 6230 4206
fax: (02) 6230 4209
email: embassyofcolombia@bigpond.com
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