Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

monkeywire - [monkeywire] Dutch customs find 2,000 baboon noses

monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: The #1 source for news about monkeys and apes

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Eric Brager <eric AT looney.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Dutch customs find 2,000 baboon noses
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:13:02 -0400

http://salon.com/mwt/wire/2003/09/04/baboon_noses/index.html

Dutch customs find 2,000 baboon noses

- - - - - - - - - - - -
Associated Press

Sept. 4, 2003

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Around 2,000 baboon noses were found packed
in an abandoned suitcase at Amsterdam airport when they started to stink,
officials said Wednesday.

Dutch customs police made the gruesome discovery last week and turned the
case over to the Agriculture Ministry's Inspection Service, which said it
had several leads that may help it track down the culprits.

Baboons are protected under international law.

"We assume these animals were killed, and we have to prevent something
like this from happening again," spokesman Louis Steens said. He said the
noses had been destroyed.

The noses -- around 66 pounds worth -- were en route from Lagos, Nigeria,
to the United States and are believed to have been meant to be eaten or
used in traditional medicine by immigrants.

"It is known that many inhabitants of Asian and African countries ascribe
beneficial properties to these medicines and use them for that reason,"
the Inspection Service said in a statement.



Associated Press

--
Eric Brager ^
eric AT brager.com /e\
eric AT looney.com ---






  • [monkeywire] Dutch customs find 2,000 baboon noses, Eric Brager, 09/04/2003

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page