14 DAY TRIAL // Ricky Gervais really does not care whether an animal is cute and cuddly or downright not-so-handsome. To him, all animals are equal and should be protected against people who want to experiment on them.
Hence, just a few weeks after he asked that folks protest plans to set up a beagle breeding facility in Yorkshire, he is urging his fans to help save baboons in Kenya. Look to the Stars explains that, for the time being, folks at the Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi, Kenya, are allowed to experiment on baboons.
What's more, scientists from the UK sometimes travel to this country in order to subject these animals to various tests, the same source details.
More often than not, the baboons are forced to live in horrific conditions, and are not properly looked after. What's more, some of the experiments that researchers carry out on them are fairly disturbing.
Comedian Ricky Gervais and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) hope that, once they raise over 9,000 signatures on a petition asking that such practices be put an end to without delay and send it to the president of Kenya, baboons in said country will no longer be exploited.
“The findings from the BUAV investigation into the use of wild-caught baboons for research in Kenya is very distressing. Their film shows just how much the animals suffer after being trapped in the wild and held captive in terrible conditions, some for years on end.”
“The UK doesn’t allow experimentation on wild-caught primates and I hope that the findings of this investigation will make a real difference to stopping the practice in Kenya and other countries. I urge people to support the BUAV campaign by signing the petition,” the comedian recently said.
The petition that Ricky Gervais and the BUAV want people to sign demands that baboons are no longer captured and experimented on.