Air France, Jane Goodall écrit à de Juniac

Après Justin Bieber et d’autres personnes du monde de l’entertainment (video de James Cromwell: ), c’est au tour de vrais professionnels de s’impliquer dans la bataille contre le transport de singe vers des laboratoires. Toutes les compagnies aériennes mondiales que l’on peut qualifier de « major » (Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, China Southern Airlines, United Airlines, Alitalia, Delta Airlines, British Airways and American Airlines et plein d’autres) refusent désormais de transporter des primates, toutes sauf une, Air France.

C’est donc au tour de Jane Goodall de s’impliquer pour qu’Air France stoppe cette activité. Jane Goodall, née le 3 avril 1934 à Londres, est une primatologue, éthologue et anthropologue britannique. Elle est la première à avoir observé et rapporté que les chimpanzés utilisent des outils pour s’alimenter. Ses travaux ont profondément transformé les rapports homme-animal. En avril 2002, le Secrétaire général Kofi Annan nomme le Dr Jane Goodall Messager de la paix des Nations Unies. Le docteur Jane Goodall a donc écrit un courrier à Alexandre de Juniac pour tenter de le sensibiliser.

 » Dear Mr. de Juniac,

I was disturbed to learn recently that Air France is the last passenger airline in the world that continues to transport monkeys destined for experimentation. As I understand it, Air France ships thousands of monkeys each year from Asia and the island of Mauritius to laboratories and laboratory suppliers in France, the United States, and other countries. I implore you to end your involvement in this cruel trade.

You may not know this, but in the wild, long-tailed monkeys—the species Air France most commonly ships to laboratories—live in warm rain forests near the water and travel up to a mile a day playing, foraging for food and socializing with one another. They live in groups of up to 30 and at night, they sleep huddled together high up in the trees. Babies are nursed by their mothers until they are more than a year old and females remain in the same social groups for life with their mothers, daughters, sisters and cousins. These social, intelligent primates can live to be more than 30 years old.

Air France is unfortunately ensuring that they don’t get to experience any of this.

The monkeys Air France transports have been traumatically captured in the jungle or are the young offspring of mothers who were taken from the wild and forced to breed at horrendous monkey farms. One recent expose of a supplier in Mauritius that Air France apparently services showed babies being roughly ripped from their mothers and crudely tattooed for identification while fully conscious.

Once Air France delivers these monkeys to laboratories on long and terrifying flights, they are deprived of everything meaningful and necessary for them to be happy. In most cases, they are confined by themselves in small, desolate cages. They are denied physical contact with other monkeys. The only time they are removed from their cages is when someone is coming to subject them to a distressful or painful procedure. As would be the case in humans, this treatment leaves them desperately lonely, traumatised and psychologically damaged. They often rock, spin, cry out and even self mutilate.

These routine, miserable conditions are the backdrop to dreadful experiments in which the monkeys are poisoned, cut into, restrained, starved, shocked and infected.

All other major airlines—including Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, China Southern Airlines, United Airlines, Alitalia, Delta Airlines, British Airways and American Airlines—have made the compassionate decision to end their involvement in this business. I hope that you will take swift and decisive action to do the same.

Jane Goodall  »

Pour ceux qui souhaitent plus d’informations sur cette femme : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall

Espérons qu’Air France, compagnie aérienne qui est à la pointe du développement durable et soucieuse de son emprunte écologique, décide enfin de stopper ce transport de primates comme le font les meilleures compagnies aériennes mondiales.