Conservation organisations had warned that the monkeys could be headed to labs instead of zoos. Read more at straitstimes.com.
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 petitioners who went to court against the proposal, said on Monday.considering a proposalConservation organisations had warned that the monkeys could be headed to labs instead of zoos, and had approached the country’s Court of Appeal seeking any decision to export them to China be quashed.
“The case will be taken up before the Court of Appeal on 6th July to record the above undertaking given to the court by the state,” the WNPS said. Animal rights non-profit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the government’s decision recognised the animals “aren’t commodities to be bought and sold”.
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