Mauritius Paradise Island or A Place Government Funding is profiting from the suffering on innocent monkeys
Mauritius is an island nation located just off the southeast coast of Africa, approx. 900km east of Madagascar and surrounded by the warm Indian Ocean but… if you thought that the island would be just a pure paradise, maybe you have never heard that monkey are bred and captured from the wild to be sold to Charles Rivers Laboratories in USA and UK.
Every year, tens of thousands of monkeys are traded globally for the international animal research industry. Some are trapped in the wild while others are bred in captivity, usually in concrete pens on large-scale facilities.
Mauritius, a popular destination for European holidaymakers, is one of the world's largest exporters of long-tailed macaques for the global research and toxicity testing industry and the main supplier to Europe, exporting thousands of animals every year. In 2021, there was a significant increase in the number of monkeys exported, with over 10,000 individuals sent overseas to laboratories in countries like Spain, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Canada and the USA.
Crammed into small transit crates, the monkeys are transported from Mauritius as cargo by air. Air France is the main airline known to be involved, and other airlines that fly monkeys out of Mauritius include Safe Air (based in Kenya) and Wamos Air (based in Spain).
Time and time again, our pioneering and hard-hitting investigations have exposed the brutality and misery inflicted on monkeys in the chain of supply from the trapping fields to the laboratory cage.
Source https://crueltyfreeinternational.org/end-the-trade-in-primates
Please contact : Prime Minister Mr. Pravind Jugnauth and the Attorney General Mr. Maneesh Gobin asking them to immediate stop profiting from the torturing of innocent monkeys
Contact;
Prime Minister Mr. Pravind Jugnauth E-mail pmo@govmu.org
Attorney General Mr. Maneesh Gobin Email maneesh.gobin@gmail.com ; mgobin@govmu.org
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The macaque monkeys of Mauritius: an invasive alien species, and a major export for research
Macaque monkeys live as both captive and wild animals on the island of Mauritius. The wild population number is estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 animals, it’s uncertain how many exist in captivity, but the figure is in the tens of thousands. The reason for a high captive number is that Mauritius is one of the world’s largest exporters of monkeys for the global research industry – primarily, to the US and Europe. Up to 10,000 primates are exported by Mauritius each year. Ecologist Vincent Florens provides insights into how the animals first came to Mauritius and how their presence has affected the island’s natural environment.
