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As you Chunky Monkey fans know, 4 percent of Chunky Monkey doll sales are donated to the International Primate Protection League. This summer the IPPL celebrated its 25th birthday. Here's a look at just some of the great work they've been doing on behalf of primates around the world.
            This is Nyango.
            Read his update from Limbe.            Reprints and photos courtesy of the IPPL.
                           International Primate Protection League, P. O. Box 766, Summerville, S.C. 29484
http://www.ippl.org
 
1973: IPPL was founded by Shirley McGreal, then living in Thailand. 1981: The California laboratory sent most of its gibbons to zoos and labs.  IPPL adopted one tiny, sickly and emotionally disturbed gibbon that nobody wanted. We gave him the name Arun Rangsi. He still lives with us and his own gibbon family. 1991:  IPPL adopted an adorable, blind one-year-old gibbon. His blindness resulted from encephalitis which he caught during the summer 1990 epidemic in Florida.  "Beanie Gibbon" is a wonderful animal.  He still lives at IPPL headquarters.
1974: IPPL exposed a network smuggling gibbons from Thailand to the USA. 1984:  Shirley McGreal and an IPPL team picketed an "exotic animal auction" in Atlanta, Georgia, exposing this barbaric cruelty to all auctioned animals. 1992:  IPPL's Helen Vorhees Brach Office Building was opened.  IPPL held its first Members' Meeting in our lovely new home.  Shirley McGreal was elected to  the United Nations Global 500 Honor Roll.
1976: IPPL uncovered a primate smuggling racket operating through Singapore and got it closed down. 1988: Shirley McGreal won the prestigious Marchig Animal Welfare Award. The citation by Jeanne Marchig and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Noted: 
     Her valiant and courageous efforts on behalf of the world's primates without thought of personal cost, make her a worthy recipient of the Marchig prize.		 1994:  An IPPL member found nine chimpanzees in a pet shop in Saudi Arabia.  IPPL intervened, and as a result the animals were confiscated.
1980: IPPL's work was a main factor leading to the closure of a California laboratory using gibbons in fatal experiments. 1990: Six baby orangutans, all in appalling condition, were confiscated at Bangkok Airport.  IPPL conducted an investigation which identified Matthew Block of Miami as one of the smuggling gang. IPPL pushed for Block to be prosecuted. When he got a probation plea bargain, IPPL protested and it was overturned.  Block later went to prison. 1998:  In April representatives of many overseas primate sanctuaries and over 100 members assembled at IPPL Headquarters for our 25th anniversary celebration.