Gorillas Make Headlines in Malaysiakini And Star

November 2002

Please contact the President of Nigeria, requesting that the activities of Mr. Odukoya's animal dealing business and of Ibadan Zoo be investigated in regard to the export of four wild-caught gorillas in January 2002 from Nigeria to Malaysia on false captive-born permits and for any other deals they may have handled.

Chief Olusegan Obasanjo
President of Nigeria
Federal Secretariat
Shehu Shagari Way
Abuja, Nigeria

Please contact Malaysia's Minister of Science thanking the government for its plans to confiscate four wild-caught gorillas exported on false certificates of captive birth to Taiping Zoo, Malaysia. Please request that DNA tests be performed on the animals. Should tests confirm that they are Western lowland gorillas, please request that they be returned to Limbe Wildlife Center in Cameroon, which provides excellent care to gorillas.

Datuk Law Hieng Ding
Minister of Science, Technology and Environment
127th floor, Block C5, Parcel C
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan
62662 Purta, Malaysia
Fax: 60-3-8885-8000 or 60-3-999-1818