“Even the chimpanzees, genetically very close to human and dividing with the man 98,7% to his genetic material are poor models for the study of the AIDS and other human diseases because of their natural immunity to the HIV and an immune system of a specificity different from ours. ”
(cf J.G. Hacia - TRENDS IN GENETICS, flight 17, N° 11, pages 637-645)
Mauritius, the hell of the primates
Mauritius is a reference as regards “scientific” breeding of monkeys. The country remains a large exporter of primates intended for the biomedical experiments. The captures and the export of macaques represent a lucrative trade for all the chain links of this legalized traffic. Each year, the Park National would obtain more than 300.000 euros thanks to the export of primates. More than 14.000 monkeys would be prisoners of the centers of transit on the whole of the island. 7.000 of them are exported each year. Several thousands of poachers would work already in all illegality as far as Africa and in Madagascar to provide the cattle-breeding farms. The natural population of macaques of Mauritius comprises approximately 60.000 individuals: in the long run, that will it be so of other centers of breedings are established to satisfy the request compulsive eater of the Occident?
The investigators of One Voice, with the risk of their life, infiltrated a breeding of primates in Kampuchea. Intended for research laboratories and even for a great center of French primatology, these monkeys survive under unacceptable conditions… And to face the request, the wild captures of individuals multiply. One Voice mobilizes and organizes a great demonstration on April 25. Together we can put a term at these sufferings!
A profitable activity
Under the impulse of Chinese investors, the breedings of macaques with long tail or macaque crabier (Macaca fascicularis), multiply in Kampuchea. With for main targets the US markets, Chinese and soon French, this trade, already very little regulated, almost does not respect the existing directives… In 2006, according to QUOTE, more than 6000 monkeys were exported towards China, and 2500 towards the United States. In 2007, according to an official source, they would have been 9500 to be exported of Kampuchea… And this figure is only one beginning, being given the number of new breedings in construction!
Captured in nature
A statement of principle of WHO and Group for the conservation of ecosystem (ECG) recommend that “the use of the threatened, vulnerable and rare species in the biomedical research projects is considered only when the animals come from autoalimentés breedings. ” All the animals which are captive there must thus belong at least to the F2 generation. However it is far from being the case! The breeding that our investigators visited provides indeed largely in nature, although the species is classified as quasi-threatened by the UICN. It is besides as well as the many existing breedings operate to create and renew their stock… The research laboratories for which these animals are intended have need for individuals presenting a great genetic diversity and of big number. However the time necessary with the reproduction and the breeding of the young people is too long. It is thus necessary unceasingly to capture new individuals, females already sexually mature mainly, to ensure rates… An investigation carried out by the BUAV in the same breeding revealed the conditions of the abduction of the animals in Nature.
(cf J.G. Hacia - TRENDS IN GENETICS, flight 17, N° 11, pages 637-645)
Mauritius, the hell of the primates
Mauritius is a reference as regards “scientific” breeding of monkeys. The country remains a large exporter of primates intended for the biomedical experiments. The captures and the export of macaques represent a lucrative trade for all the chain links of this legalized traffic. Each year, the Park National would obtain more than 300.000 euros thanks to the export of primates. More than 14.000 monkeys would be prisoners of the centers of transit on the whole of the island. 7.000 of them are exported each year. Several thousands of poachers would work already in all illegality as far as Africa and in Madagascar to provide the cattle-breeding farms. The natural population of macaques of Mauritius comprises approximately 60.000 individuals: in the long run, that will it be so of other centers of breedings are established to satisfy the request compulsive eater of the Occident?
The investigators of One Voice, with the risk of their life, infiltrated a breeding of primates in Kampuchea. Intended for research laboratories and even for a great center of French primatology, these monkeys survive under unacceptable conditions… And to face the request, the wild captures of individuals multiply. One Voice mobilizes and organizes a great demonstration on April 25. Together we can put a term at these sufferings!
A profitable activity
Under the impulse of Chinese investors, the breedings of macaques with long tail or macaque crabier (Macaca fascicularis), multiply in Kampuchea. With for main targets the US markets, Chinese and soon French, this trade, already very little regulated, almost does not respect the existing directives… In 2006, according to QUOTE, more than 6000 monkeys were exported towards China, and 2500 towards the United States. In 2007, according to an official source, they would have been 9500 to be exported of Kampuchea… And this figure is only one beginning, being given the number of new breedings in construction!
Captured in nature
A statement of principle of WHO and Group for the conservation of ecosystem (ECG) recommend that “the use of the threatened, vulnerable and rare species in the biomedical research projects is considered only when the animals come from autoalimentés breedings. ” All the animals which are captive there must thus belong at least to the F2 generation. However it is far from being the case! The breeding that our investigators visited provides indeed largely in nature, although the species is classified as quasi-threatened by the UICN. It is besides as well as the many existing breedings operate to create and renew their stock… The research laboratories for which these animals are intended have need for individuals presenting a great genetic diversity and of big number. However the time necessary with the reproduction and the breeding of the young people is too long. It is thus necessary unceasingly to capture new individuals, females already sexually mature mainly, to ensure rates… An investigation carried out by the BUAV in the same breeding revealed the conditions of the abduction of the animals in Nature.
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