Global 500 Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement. 1993: IPPL's undercover detectives filmed the illegal trade in wildlife in the street markets along the borders of Vietnam and China. 1994: IPPL learned of nine chimpanzees in pet shops in Saudi Arabia. Following a letter-writing campaign by IPPL supporters, these animals were confiscated and sent to Riyadh Zoo. 1995: IPPL uncovered a Pakistani organization that was smuggling endangered primates (including gorillas) from Nigeria to the Philippines. 1996: IPPL ran a fundraising campaign for the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Cameroon, which houses gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys rescued from the trade in bush meat and pet primates. 1997: IPPL learned that hundreds of monkeys from Indonesia had reached Chicago Airport and that the shipments contained pregnant monkeys, nursing monkeys, and baby monkeys three to four weeks old, in violation of U.S. law. As a result of IPPL's campaign, the company, its president, and two officials were indicted, and the company was fined $500,000. 1998: IPPL raised over $35,000 to support Cameroon's Limbe Wildlife Centre. 1999: IPPL worked with the grassroots Indonesian animal protection group KSBK (now known as ProFauna Indonesia) to block the export of dozens of proboscis monkeys poached from an Indonesian nature reserve and sent to Surabaya Zoo, where many of them died. Five of the surviving monkeys were returned to the wild. 2000s 2000: IPPL investigated a shipment of twelve black-and-white colobus monkeys smuggled from Tanzania to Thailand, where five of the monkeys died. 2001: IPPL organized an international protest over the drowning by Egyptian authorities of a baby gorilla and baby chimpanzee smuggled from Nigeria into Egypt. IPPL's protests led EgyptAir to ban further primate shipments. 2002: IPPL learned that four baby gorillas had reached Taiping Zoo, Malaysia, from Ibadan Zoo in Nigeria, on documents falsely claiming that the animals were captive born. IPPL publicity resulted in the confiscation of the gorillas by Malaysian authorities. 2003: IPPL provided information to a Nigerian presidential panel investigating the illegal wildlife trade in that country. Britain's Prince Philip sent IPPL a letter congratulating IPPL on its 30th anniversary. 2004: IPPL inspected a zoo in Thonburi, Thailand. Among the hundreds of animals kept in substandard conditions there were gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, gibbons, and monkeys. IPPL started a campaign to close the facility. 2005: A baby orangutan was discovered at a pet shop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. IPPL asked members to send protest letters