Campaign Updates: Ethiopian Airlines Sends Monkeys to Their Deaths in U.S. Labs

Published by PETA Staff.
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Ethiopian Airlines—Africa’s largest airline, with a history of violating animal welfare laws—has stuffed thousands of endangered monkeys inside tiny wooden crates, locked them in cargo holds, and shipped them halfway around the world. Once in the U.S., the monkeys are hauled off to laboratories, where they’re mutilated, poisoned, infected with diseases, psychologically tormented, and subjected to other horrors in pointless experiments before ultimately being killed. Please TAKE ACTION TODAY to help PETA convince Ethiopian Airlines to join nearly every other major airline in the world by refusing to ship sensitive beings to laboratories.

Monkey Allies Expose Ethiopian Airlines’ Cruel ‘Cargo’ to Airport Passengers

September 23, 2024

PETA supporters left leaflets throughout John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York notifying travelers that Ethiopian Airlines ships terrified monkeys to U.S. laboratories, where they’re tormented and killed. The airport is a major port of entry into the U.S. for Ethiopian Airlines planes carrying the stressed, possibly sick animals.

Flyers in an airport

Protesters Pushing Crate of Shrieking ‘Monkeys’ Stun Passengers at Dulles Airport

August 30, 2024

Passengers waiting to check their luggage for flights out of Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia got an early morning surprise as two “monkey transporters” in hazmat suits wheeled a wooden crate of shrieking “monkeys” through the terminal to the Ethiopian Airlines baggage check area. Meanwhile, fellow protesters outside educated passersby about the airline’s gruesome role in the torture and death of endangered monkeys.


PETA Entity Representatives and Child Jailed in Ethiopia Over Monkey Shipments

July 18, 2024

PETA Asia Senior Vice President Jason Baker, his 11-year-old son, and PETA U.K. Campaign leader Reuben Skeats spent more than 24 hours in jail in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with only mattresses on the floor to sleep on. The three were detained after simply scoping out a possible location for a future peaceful protest against Ethiopian Airlines. The news was covered by various international media outlets, including MSN, SimpleFlying.com, and Bristol Live.

Two protestors in monkey masks and prison outfits holding signs. Text reads "Ethiopian Airlines: Stop Cruel Monkey Shipments"

Activist Shares Plane Truth With Travelers on Ethiopian Airlines’ ‘Cargo of Despair’

July 17, 2024

A PETA supporter visited Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is frequently used by Ethiopian Airlines, to hand out stickers and distribute leaflets informing travelers about the airline’s “cargo of despair” stuffed full of monkeys in tiny crates.

Leaflets facing a window showing an airplaine

Activists Blast Ethiopian Airlines’ Terminal Monkey Shipments in Canada

July 14, 2024

More than a dozen activists gathered at Toronto Pearson Airport in Ontario, Canada, to protest Ethiopian Airlines’ monkey shipments. They plastered the airport with stickers and handed out informational leaflets to travelers who were outraged to learn about the airline’s role in the cruel monkey transportation industry.

A line of demonstrators holding signs and leaflets

PETA’s Campaign Lands Worldwide Media Attention

July 12, 2024

PETA’s campaign against Ethiopian Airlines’ cruel monkey shipments garnered international media attention with coverage by PaddleYourOwnKanoo.com in the U.S., Lado in Mexico, Aviacionline in Argentina, and Olhar Animal, ANDA, and Aeroin in Brazil.


PETA Takes to Social Media to Blast Ethiopian Airlines’ Cruelty

July 6, 2024

PETA launched a new video on social media blasting Ethiopian Airlines for profiting off an industry that drains forests of endangered monkeys and flies them to U.S. laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments.


Fleet of PETA Supporters Jam Ethiopian Airlines’ Phone Lines

July 3, 2024

After PETA asked supporters to call Ethiopian Airlines, numerous people leapt into action and flooded the company with pleas to stop flying monkeys to their deaths in U.S. laboratories.


PETA to Airline Awards: Don’t Promote Cruelty to Animals and Wildlife Trafficking

June 3, 2024

PETA sent letters to two influential airline award companies, Skytrax and Air Cargo Week, urging them not to give Ethiopian Airlines any awards due to its devastating monkey shipments, which have been abandoned by nearly every major airline in the world.


PETA Ramps Up Turbulence by Calling Out Ethiopian Airlines in Public Campaign

May 28, 2024

After uncovering evidence that Ethiopian Airlines shipped hundreds of endangered monkeys from Ethiopia to a Florida-based laboratory supplier, PETA launched a full-throttle campaign against the airline. 


PETA Pushes Ethiopian Airlines CEO to Ground All Monkey Shipments

September 27, 2023

PETA contacted the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Tasew Bekele, urging him to immediately stop shipping monkeys to laboratories for use in gruesome and deadly experiments.

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