Campaign Updates: Ethiopian Airlines Sends Monkeys to Their Deaths in U.S. Labs
Ethiopian Airlines—Africa’s largest airline, with a history of violating animal welfare laws—
has stuffed thousands of endangered monkeys inside tiny wooden crates, locked them in cargo holds, and shipped them halfway around the world. Once in the U.S., the monkeys are hauled off to laboratories, where they’re mutilated, poisoned, infected with diseases, psychologically tormented, and subjected to other horrors in pointless experiments before ultimately being killed. Please TAKE ACTION TODAY to help PETA convince Ethiopian Airlines to join nearly every other major airline in the world by refusing to ship sensitive beings to laboratories.
PETA Entity Representatives and Child Jailed in Ethiopia Over Monkey Shipments
July 18, 2024
PETA Asia Senior Vice President Jason Baker, his 11-year-old son, and PETA U.K. Campaign leader Reuben Skeats spent more than 24 hours in jail in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with only mattresses on the floor to sleep on. The three were detained after simply scoping out a possible location for a future peaceful protest against Ethiopian Airlines. The news was covered by various international media outlets, including MSN, SimpleFlying.com, and Bristol Live.
Activist Shares Plane Truth With Travelers on Ethiopian Airlines’ ‘Cargo of Despair’
July 17, 2024
A PETA supporter visited Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is frequently used by Ethiopian Airlines, to hand out stickers and distribute leaflets informing travelers about the airline’s “cargo of despair” stuffed full of monkeys in tiny crates.
Activists Blast Ethiopian Airlines’ Terminal Monkey Shipments in Canada
July 14, 2024
More than a dozen activists gathered at Toronto Pearson Airport in Ontario, Canada, to protest Ethiopian Airlines’ monkey shipments. They plastered the airport with stickers and handed out informational leaflets to travelers who were outraged to learn about the airline’s role in the cruel monkey transportation industry.
PETA’s Campaign Lands Worldwide Media Attention
July 12, 2024
PETA’s campaign against Ethiopian Airlines’ cruel monkey shipments garnered international media attention with coverage by PaddleYourOwnKanoo.com in the U.S., Lado in Mexico, Aviacionline in Argentina, and Olhar Animal, ANDA, and Aeroin in Brazil.
PETA Takes to Social Media to Blast Ethiopian Airlines’ Cruelty
July 6, 2024
PETA launched a new video on social media blasting Ethiopian Airlines for profiting off an industry that drains forests of endangered monkeys and flies them to U.S. laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments.
Fleet of PETA Supporters Jam Ethiopian Airlines’ Phone Lines
July 3, 2024
After PETA asked supporters to call Ethiopian Airlines, numerous people leapt into action and flooded the company with pleas to stop flying monkeys to their deaths in U.S. laboratories.
PETA to Airline Awards: Don’t Promote Cruelty to Animals and Wildlife Trafficking
June 3, 2024
PETA sent letters to two influential airline award companies, Skytrax and Air Cargo Week, urging them not to give Ethiopian Airlines any awards due to its devastating monkey shipments, which have been abandoned by nearly every major airline in the world.
PETA Ramps Up Turbulence by Calling Out Ethiopian Airlines in Public Campaign
May 28, 2024
After uncovering evidence that Ethiopian Airlines shipped hundreds of endangered monkeys from Ethiopia to a Florida-based laboratory supplier, PETA launched a full-throttle campaign against the airline.
PETA Pushes Ethiopian Airlines CEO to Ground All Monkey Shipments
September 27, 2023
PETA contacted the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Tasew Bekele, urging him to immediately stop shipping monkeys to laboratories for use in gruesome and deadly experiments.
