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appalling cruelty that continues to be inflicted on wild monkeys for the international research industry.

How You Can Help: http://www.buav.org/e_projecty.php

The
BUAV has obtained shocking never-seen-before footage of the trapping of
wild monkeys in Cambodia destined for factory farms supplying the
international research industry.

Appallingly, the monkeys were
even hunted inside a nature reserve in Cambodia — supposedly a place of
safety. The hunters used catapults and beat the tree trunks with oars to
scare the monkeys out of the trees and drive them into nets. Then
screaming in terror, or rigid with fear, these highly intelligent
creatures were grabbed by their tails, stuffed into bags and stored in
the bottom of a boat before being sold to a dealer of a monkey farm.

At
a breeding farm, other monkeys are seen in bare metal cages — including
nursing mothers with babies, bred to be sold to the research industry.

The
film is further evidence of the appalling cruelty that continues to be
inflicted on wild monkeys for the international research industry. It
also unveils the exploitation of indigenous populations of macaques
(this type of monkey) in Asia, the industrial style breeding of monkeys,
and the poor conditions in which they are kept that often fail to meet
international guidelines on animal welfare, and fail to meet the
monkeys’ complex psychological and behavioural needs.

The BUAV
initiated the investigation as part of its campaign to expose the
lifetime of suffering caused by the ever increasing demand for primates
from animal research companies and institutions across the world. This
investigation underlines that it is not only in labs that research
primates suffer. It is important that public and politicians are made
aware of this whole picture, particularly since important decisions
about the use of primates in research are shortly to be made as the EU
rules governing animal experiments are revised.

The BUAV is
working hard to block this trade in the countries where the monkeys are
finally shipped. This campaign is vitally important if we are to break
the chain of pain and misery — from the forests where the wild
populations of monkeys live freely, to the breeding farms and, finally,
the laboratories where they are imprisoned.

Take action – http://www.buav.org/e_projecty.php

BUAV – http://www.buav.org

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