It’s an incredible victory for 100,000 monkeys! PETA is thankful to Sri Lanka’s executive for nixing a plan to export 100,000 monkeys to China and for spotting that they aren’t commodities to be purchased and offered.
The transfer comes after PETA wrote to Sri Lankan officers, urging them to cancel the sale of the monkeys, who would most likely have ended up in laboratories the place they’d had been tormented and killed.
“Those monkeys don’t belong in captivity. It’s nearly positive that, as soon as in China, they’d be funneled into biomedical experiments and useless inside months.”
—Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel
PETA Senior Science Guide
As Sri Lankan animal teams—together with the Natural world and Nature Coverage Society of Sri Lanka—and primate professionals confirmed, those macaques are folks with households who are living in tight-knit communities.
Their lives topic, and so does their contribution to their wooded area house.
Officers have accomplished the correct factor.
What You Can Do
Inform the CDC to completely ban all monkey importation to the U.S.