Please Help the Monkeys!

Vivisection Exposed is joining Action for Primates and other animal protection groups across Europe in a Week of Action against the trade in long-tailed macaques for research from Mauritius. During 6th-11th December, more than a dozen European animal groups are raising awareness by holding events and taking part in a social media campaign that will focus attention on the Mauritius government, embassies and tourism offices across Europe, calling for an end to the Mauritius trade in monkeys for research.

Below, you will find numerous actions can take to help the monkeys from Mauritius. Please try to do all and ask others to join in this important campaign.

• Please change your avatar/profile to our Mauritius campaign for the week, here is the link to the image you can download for this: Mauritius Week of Action profile image
• Please send E-mail to Mauritius government ministers & tourism department; clicking on an E-mail address will create a sample message you can edit and Cc relevant individuals:
  • The Hon Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Prime Minister: privateoffice@govmu.org
  • The Hon Louis Steven OBEEGADOO, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Tourism: sobeegadoo@govmu.org
  • The Hon Maneesh Gobin, Minister of Agro Industry and Food Security: mgobin@govmu.org
  • The Hon Kavydass Ramano, Minister of Environment: kramano@govmu.org
  • Ministry of Tourism: mtou@govmu.org
    – will Cc Permanent Secretary (mjoomun@govmu.org) and Deputy Permanent Secretary (grcallychurn@govmu.org)
  • Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority: mtpa@intnet.mu
  • To find Mauritius Embassy in your country: Mauritius Diplomatic Missions Overseas https://www.embassypages.com/mauritius
  • To find Mauritius tourism office in your country or region: https://www.tourisme-ilemaurice.mu/en-uk/overseas-offices.html
• Contact details for airlines transporting monkeys from Mauritius, and their subsidiaries: Urge them to join the many other airlines and make the humane decision to stop transporting non-human primates for research purposes:
  • Air France: Anne Rigail, Chief Executive: anne.rigail@airfrance.fr
  • Safe Air: info@safeaircompany.com
    – will Cc the commercial department (commercial@safeaircompany.com)
  • Wamos Air: Enrique Saiz, Chief Executive Officer: charter@wamosair.com
  • Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (a parent company of Wamos Air): Richard D. Fain, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: Rfain@rccl.com
• Subsidiary brands owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd:
  • Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Chief Executive, President and Chief Executive Officer, Celebrity Cruises: Lutoff-Perlo@celebritycruises.com
    – will Cc Jason Liberty, Executive Vice President (jliberty@celebritycruises.com)
  • Roberto Martinoli, Chief Executive, Silversea Cruises: rmartinoli@Silversea.com
    – will Cc Mark Conroy, Managing Director (mconroy@silversea.com)
  • Michael Bayley, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International: MBayley@rccl.com
• Please be active on Social Media:
  • Twitter handles to use @GovMauritius & @SeeMauritius (Mauritius Tourism Board)
  • Hashtags which are used by the official Mauritius Tourism Twitter profile: #mauritiusnow #mauritius #mymauritius
  • Please also use these campaign hashtags: #ProtectMauritiusMonkeys #StopMauritiusMonkeyTrade #StopPrimateTests
• Please Sign & Share these petitions:
  • Urge Wamos Air to stop transporting monkeys to laboratories: (Spanish/English/French): https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/776/007/311/
  • Urge Royal Caribbean Cruises and other parent companies of Wamos Air to end involvement in global trade in monkeys for research (US petition in English): https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-end-fatal-monkey-shipping-for-cruel-research/
  • Call on Liverpool Football Club to urge Mauritius to send its trade in monkeys (Liverpool Football Club is in partnership with the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority and Economic Development Board Mauritius) (petition in English): https://www.thepetitionsite.com/370/553/392/liverpool-football-club-urge-mauritius-to-end-its-trade-in-primates-for-vivisection/

Thank you!