... is preparing for major mass mobilisations against the Regional Primate Centers in the United States of America - to take place 24 April 1983. It is being described as being the largest single campaign in the history of work for animals.

The Primate family of which man himself is a member, includes the great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans) as well as the numerous species of old and new world monkeys. The animal Man is not even prepared to exempt his closest relative from the research laboratory.

In the early 1900s Dr Serge Voronoff, in an attempt to rejuvenate the aged, grafted the sex glands of chimpanzees on to those of human beings. Since that time, the jungles and forests of the world have been systematically plundered for their primates for despatch to laboratories until we have now reached the stage when many primates face complete extinction.

Coalition Members and Supporters have come forward from many countries around the globe in sympathy with Mobilization and we are proud to say that the NZ Anti-Vivisection Society has pledged support to this active campaign which is directed against the laboratories engaged in brutal and hideous experiments against the sensitive and intelligent non-human primates. Our nearest living relations on this planet.

Awareness Brings Responsibility

The U.S. Military has killed thousands of monkeys to "study" the potential effects of nuclear and chemical warfare. The animals are subjected to effects of neutron bomb radiation, atomic fallout, and chemical and biological toxins. Chimpanzees are dropped at different speeds to determine gravity-induced stress.

The chimpanzee is a highly developed, extremely complex, social animal. They make tools, hunt cooperatively, use sticks as weapons, learn skills from one another. Chimpanzees possess rudimentary language abilities and can recognise themselves in a mirror.