Find out which airlines are responsible for transporting primates to research facilities around the world.

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A small number of airlines continue to play a part of this cruel trade. Recent information obtained by the BUAV shows that the following airlines transported primates for the research industry during 2009:

AIR CHINA
109 rhesus macaques from China to the USA on 1st December

AIR FRANCE
78 long-tailed macaques from Mauritius to USA on 18th February

AMERICAN AIRLINES
20 night monkeys from Peru to the USA on 23rd June

AMERIJET
42 African green monkeys from St Kitts to the USA on 26th October

CARIBBEAN AIRLINES
36 African green monkeys from Barbados to the USA on 26th May

CHINA EASTERN AIRLNES
60 rhesus macaques from China to the USA on 27th May

CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES
120 long-tailed macaques from Indonesia to the USA on 13th November

EL AL AIRLINES
120 long-tailed macaques from Israel to the USA on 1st October

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES
100 long-tailed macaques from the Philippines to the USA on 1st November

You can help
Please write to the above airlines to ask them to stop participating in this cruel trade. 

• Cargo Cruelty
  • Stress and anxiety
  • Primate Shipments
  • Catalogue of Cruelty
  • Airlines Stance on Primate Transport