CITES – GORILLAS
August 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Primate Protection League has welcomed CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers's call for prosecutions over the illegal sale of four young wild gorillas from Nigeria to Malaysia, via South Africa. League chairwoman Shirley McGreal told BBC Wildlife the intervention made court action "more likely," although she has criticised the case's handling. CITES officials in Nigeria and Malaysia wrongly approved the Taiping Four gorillas' sale as a trade in zoo animals.
THE INTERNATIONAL Primate Protection League has welcomed CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers's call for prosecutions over the illegal sale of four young wild gorillas from Nigeria to Malaysia, via South Africa. League chairwoman Shirley McGreal told BBC Wildlife the intervention made court action "more likely," although she has criticised the case's handling. CITES officials in Nigeria and Malaysia wrongly approved the Taiping Four gorillas' sale as a trade in zoo animals.
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