Torn From The Wild
In 2008, the BUAV investigated and exposed the appalling cruelty and suffering that tens of thousands of macaques are forced to endure in Cambodia, the latest country to embark on the factory farming of monkeys for the international research industry.
The findings of our investigation raise major concerns regarding animal welfare and reveal a disturbing picture of cruelty and suffering that has been inflicted on Cambodia’s indigenous population of long- tailed macaques during the trapping and holding of these wild primates and the care of those kept in captivity at breeding and supplying facilities. Our findings show that the methods used to trap wild monkeys and the conditions in which these and other monkeys were kept at primate supply companies failed to meet guidelines of the International Primatological Society’s International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates.
