IPPL's efforts to end smuggling of primates have met with considerable success. In 1992, an IPPL campaign led to the imprisonment of Mathew Block for arranging the international smuggling of six baby orangutans. In the importing countries, IPPL works to monitor all primate trade and has discovered numerous illegalities which it has drawn to the attention of relevant authorities. A US primate importer is currently under investigation as a result of uncovering several shipments of monkeys. These shipments have passed federal port inspection despite violations of US law, such as shipping baby monkeys 3-4 weeks old internationally.
Members also monitor the conditions of zoo and laboratory primates in their localities.
News of IPPL's activities is carried in the IPPL Newsletter which features in-depth analysis of primate problems. No other group works exclusively to protect primates. We need your support to continue and expand our programs. The first issue Of IPPL News was published. IPPL exposed a network of smugglers shipping gibbon apes from Thailand to the USA and got the network closed down, saving hundreds of mother gibbons from being shot so that their babies could be caught.