Success Stories

• The saving of the Tuli Elephants
  
  
• The halting of the re-introduction of legalised professional greyhound racing
  
  
• The rescue of individual animals, including vervet monkeys, baboons, elephants, farmed animals and domestic animals.
  
  
• A research report by Michele Pickover for the Centre for Civil Society at the University of Kwazulu Natal on the Environmental Movement in South Africa : An Analysis Of Animal-Based Issues, Campaigns and Organisations. This report looked at animals as food, the wild life trade, killing as sport, vivisection, the Tuli Elephant debacle and the Kruger National Park. The report was published in 2005 as a book.
  
  
• The successful negotiation with the National Centre for Occupational Health (NCOH) authorities, resulting in the rescue and rehabilitation of seven research baboons.
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• Investigation of the Johannesburg Zoo. As a result it was uncovered that in the 1980s it supplied a number of laboratories with vervet monkeys and baboons as well as chimpanzees for use in fertility experiments at Roodeplaat Research Laboratory.
  
  
• The moratorium on 'culling' in the Kruger National Park.
  
  
• The ban on the ivory trade in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  
  
• The banning of the use of gill nets in South African waters.
  
  
• An investigation (since 1996) into the trade in primates in South Africa - and the subsequent call for a ban on the export of primates. As a result of this campaign, seven of the nine provinces in South Africa have instituted a moratorium on the export of primates for experimental purposes.
  
  
• The rescue of two chimpanzees which were brought into South Africa illegally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the subsequent relocation to Chimfunshi Chimpanzee Orphanage in Zambia.
  
  
• The coordination of the rescue of 25 female baboons from the laboratory supplier.