to Saudi authorities, which resulted in the government confiscating the animal. 2006: IPPL constructed new gibbon housing on five acres of newly acquired land at Headquarters Sanctuary in South Carolina. 2007: IPPL marked the return of four gorillas to a sanctuary in their native Cameroon. 2008: Shirley McGreal was presented with the Order of the British Empire "for services to the protection of primates" by Queen Elizabeth II. 2009: IPPL arranged to have a Nepalese mountaineer summit Mount Everest, where he unfurled a banner reading "Stop the Monkey Business! Don’t export Nepali monkeys to American labs." Three months later, the Nepal government announced a decision to release 300 captive rhesus monkeys from an export facility and to maintain Nepal's longstanding ban on exporting its native primates. 2010s 2011: IPPL had been collaborating with Wildlife Watch Group in Nepal since 2006 to protect that country's native rhesus monkeys. After working successfully against two proposed "monkey farms", WWG unveiled plans to establish Nepal's first wildlife sanctuary, to be named in honor of Shirley McGreal. 2013: In November the new Malaysian Minister for Natural Resources and Environment suspended the culling of his nation's monkeys, a program that had killed nearly 200,000 wild macaques, after he received petition signatures gathered by IPPL. See also Great Ape Project List of animal rights groups References External links Primate conservation Animal welfare organizations based in Thailand ¨ Environmental organizations established in 1973 1973 establishments in Thailand