Tak Action Now
Please help the BUAV end this cruel and sickening trade.
1. Write to the Prime Minister of Cambodia to ask him to place an immediate ban on the capture, breeding and export of long-tailed macaques destined for the research industry.
The Honorable Samdech Hun Sen
Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia
Office of the Council of Ministers
41, Russian Federation Blvd.
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
2. Write letters to the Cambodian embassy in your country calling on the government of Cambodia to place an immediate ban on the capture, breeding and export of long-tailed macaques destined for the research industry. Click here for the contact details of Cambodian embassies around the world:
In the UK, please write to:
His Excellency Hor Nambora
Ambassador of Cambodia
The Royal Embassy of Cambodia
64 Brondesbury Park
Willesden Green
London NW6 7AT
email: cambodianembassy@btconnect.com
3. Write to the CITES Secretariat requesting it carries out an investigation into Cambodia's trade in macaques and, if the BUAV's findings are confirmed, then to encourage CITES members to suspend CITES related trade with Cambodia.
CITES Secretariat
International Environment House
11Chemin des Anémones
CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva
Switzerland
email: info@cites.org
4. If you live in a country that has imported or is importing primates from Cambodia, please write to your CITES authority asking them not to import macaques from Cambodia, on conservation grounds.
UK
The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
email: Hilary.Benn@defra.gsi.gov.uk
USA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Management Authority
4401 N. Fairfax Drive
Room 212
ARLINGTON, VA 22203-3247
email: managementauthority@fws.gov
5. If you can, please send a donation as well, so we can afford to continue investigations like this and bring the brutal trade to a halt. Click here to donate to the BUAV
