International Campaign Launched to Stop Air France-KLM and the Primate Trade

NAVA - Press Release

4 March 2011

The National Anti-Vivisection Alliance (NAVA) have announced and launched an international campaign to stop Air France-KLM transporting primates for use in vivisection.

Recent information has shed light that Air France-KLM are the only exporter from Mauritius following the island's flagship carrier, Air Mauritius, stopping due to a similar campaign.

Each year 10,000 primates are exported from Mauritius to laboratories in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Spain and a number of other EU countries. The infamous trade in monkeys on the island has been exposed a number of times, with the most recent investigation revealing workers breaking animals' limbs, dragging them by their tails, openly taunting them and more sickening acts whilst ripping them from the wild for use in breeding farms....

Source: International Campaign Launched to Stop Air France-KLM and the Primate Trade
Author: NAVA

Link: Video SAEN


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