Information from Chile!!:

We have excellent news, the primate research centre owned by the Universidad Católica, in Chile, has been closed. After the centre was exposed by an undercover investigation during the summer of 2003, and a constant campaign to close it down that started on April of 2006, last Saturday the 88 monkeys kept inside this hell were taken to Monkey World by a Chilean Air Force plane, and arrived yesterday to England. It is being said that this has been the greater rescue of monkeys ever done in the world.

We were all informed here in Chile by a TV news article, given by a channel owned by the same university that had the centre, so they tried to clean their image and show a “nice” centre. Obviously they did not mention campaigns, but people know why it was closed and know that this is just the first vivisection place to be closed in Chile.

This is a victory for the animals, and for every animal rights activist in the world that works to end vivisection and animal abuse. These 88 monkeys are free because activists campaigned constantly, were perseverant and did not stop when the university tried to halt the campaign with their lawsuits and aggressions to activists. This is a demonstration of the power the serious and hard work can do focusing on a single target, with the commitment of activists.

We want to thank everyone who helped us in this campaign, with materials, suggestions, spreading information, and anything done to help the monkeys. We are sure this will give more force to every campaign and is a kick to the vivisection industry. Having finished here will allow us to find a new vivisection target and dedicate more time to international campaigns, such as SHAC.

Coalición por los Derechos Animales – CDA



"...pressure mounted after staff at the lab received death threats from animal rights protesters." Times Online