The New York Times
By Richard Sandomir

Shirley McGreal’s mission to save primates from smugglers, testing laboratories and zoos began in 1971 in Thailand when she saw crates of infant, white stump-tailed macaque monkeys piled up in the cargo area at a Bangkok airport. They were bound for New York.

“The babies looked so helpless and, rightly or wrongly, I thought they were appealing to me for help,” she told Satya, an animal advocacy and social justice magazine, in 1996. “Later, I seemed to run across primates everywhere: people on the same soi” — a side street — “with pet gibbons, primates for sale in markets.”

Inspired, she formed the International Primate Protection League two years later. Combining passion, outrage and relentlessness, the British-born Ms. McGreal became a formidable voice against man-made misery suffered by primates from Asia, Africa and South America.

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