PETA Urges Ethiopian Airlines to Stop Flying Monkeys to Laboratories

PETA is campaigning for Ethiopian Airlines to stop flying terrified monkeys to their death in laboratories. See our latest actions below.

Update (12 November 2024): Protests at Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels
PETA supporters dressed as prisoners and wearing monkey masks gathered outside the Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels to shine a light on Ethiopian Airlines’ gruesome role in the torture and death of endangered monkeys. The protest centred around a cage containing a fellow masked activist who represented the animals transported by Ethiopian Airlines for deadly experiments.

TODAY IN BRUSSELS: We are calling out Ethiopian Airlines ✈️@flyethiopian is flying monkeys to a certain death in laboratories.
Thousands of long-tailed macaques have been crammed into crates and flown 10,000+ miles to labs where they’re tortured and killed. This has to stop! 🛑 pic.twitter.com/RaHSM8vQ3W

— PETA UK (@PETAUK) November 12, 2024

Update (29 October 2024): PETA Pushed a Crate of Shrieking ‘Monkeys’ in Front of the Ethiopian Embassy in London

Today, we were outside the Ethiopian Embassy in London to shed light on Ethiopian Airlines’ role in the torture and death of endangered monkeys. A group of “monkey transporters” in hazmat suits wheeled a wooden crate of shrieking “monkeys” in front of the embassy to draw attention to the plight of animals transported for deadly tests by Ethiopian Airlines.

Please join our campaign and send a message to the airline’s officials today.

Update (25 October 2024): ‘Caged Monkey’ Calls For Ban on Deadly Shipments Outside Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm

Today, PETA supporters dressed as prisoners and wearing monkey masks gathered outside the Ethiopian Embassy in Stockholm. A fellow masked activist inside a cage accompanied them, representing the animals transported for deadly tests by Ethiopian Airlines. Holding signs reading, “Ethiopian Airlines: Stop Shipping Monkeys for Deadly Experiments,” the group shone a light on the airline’s gruesome role in the torture and death of endangered monkeys.

Kamila Mankiewicz

Update (15 October 2024): Crate of Shrieking ‘Monkeys’ Stuns Passengers at Gatwick Airport
Passengers waiting to check their luggage at London Gatwick Airport’s North Terminal got a surprise when two PETA “monkey transporters” in hazmat suits wheeled a wooden crate of shrieking “monkeys” to the Ethiopian Airlines baggage check-in area. A fellow activist held a sign reading, “Ethiopian Airlines: Stop Shipping Monkeys for Deadly Experiments,” to alert travellers to the airline’s gruesome role in the torture and death of endangered monkeys.

🚨 BREAKING: PETA activists brought a crate of ‘shrieking monkeys’ to Gatwick Airport to protest @flyethiopian’s cruel shipment of monkeys for deadly experiments. ✈️ These poor animals are flown to labs where they are tortured and killed. #StopAnimalTesting #EthiopianAirlines pic.twitter.com/wxsH0P4PJm

— PETA UK (@PETAUK) October 15, 2024

Ethiopian Airlines’ Sinister Business

The airline, which appears to have ties to an alleged illegal international monkey-smuggling ring, has flown thousands of monkeys from Mauritius and Southeast Asia in the cargo holds of passenger aeroplanes, even though it previously told PETA US that the company had a policy against the practice. The animals are destined for US laboratories, where they will be mutilated and maimed in painful experiments.

Over 10,000 Miles of Misery

Monkeys transported to laboratories are packed into small wooden shipping crates and forced to sit in their own faeces, urine, and blood for hours-long journeys.

The terrified animals are ultimately driven to laboratories. They may be deprived of food and water, mutilated, poisoned, forcibly immobilised in restraint devices, infected with painful and deadly diseases, psychologically tormented, used in a battery of other excruciating experiments, and ultimately killed.

Fleet of Frauds

Ethiopian Airlines has ties to a Southeast Asian black-market monkey-smuggling ring, which allegedly abducts wild-caught monkeys from their natural habitat and falsely labels them as “captive-bred” before they’re flown to the US.

A recent federal trial revealed that Ethiopian Airlines flew hundreds of these allegedly laundered monkeys from Cambodia to put them in the hands of US laboratory supplier Worldwide Primates.

Disease Outbreak

Numerous Ethiopian Airlines shipments have included monkeys taken from Mauritius, a small island where tuberculosis outbreaks on monkey-breeding farms are well documented. These shipments pose an imminent threat to public health because tuberculosis is highly infectious and can easily be transmitted from monkeys to humans.

Help Ground All Monkey Shipments

Ethiopian Airlines’ monkey shipments empty forests of endangered monkeys, threaten public health and safety, and fuel the insatiable animal experimentation industry.

Please take action today to urge the company to stop shipping monkeys to laboratories for cruel and deadly experiments.