Second condemnation of the National Museum of Natural History: One Voice obtains transparency on the breeding of gray mouse lemurs!
In Brunoy laboratory, part of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), small lemurs are euthanized and decapitated. All of this is carried out with a great deal of very convenient opacity. However, in a decision handed down on May 31, 2024, the Versailles administrative court ordered the MNHN to provide One Voice with all the documents requested concerning the conditions of detention and experiments to which the gray mouse lemurs are subjected.
An institution said to protect species reoffends with opacity and the torture of gray mouse lemurs
Since 2021, we’ve been calling on the MNHN to close the world’s largest breeding facility for gray mouse lemurs intended for experimentation, where 500 of these animals are kept to end up in laboratories. In order to reveal what was happening there, we demanded transparency from the Museum.
In February 2023, the Versailles administrative court had already ordered that we receive the inspection reports of the DDPP veterinary services carried out between 2014 and 2021, as well as statistical information on the use of animals, including information on the actual severity of the procedures.
Shedding light on the exploitation of these primates
Today, the court has ruled in our favor once again! The Museum now has two months to provide us with the ethical and retrospective assessments carried out since 2013 on projects exploiting these small, wide-eyed animals.
Prefectures, Inserm, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research… In the space of just a few months, dozens of decisions have been in agreement with us and gave us access to hundreds of documents, allowing us to reveal the reality of the laboratories!
To put an end to the ordeal of experiments on gray mouse lemurs, sign the petition!