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Update (July 10, 2025): PETA has just learned that current and former officials from the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are negotiating the release of more than 1,000 long-tailed macaques back to Charles River Laboratories, the animal testing giant that illegally imported them from Cambodia.
PETA sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to investigate and to prevent Charles River from profiting off the victims of the alleged crime. The monkeys should be sent to sanctuary and Charles River should pay for their lifetime care. On top of this, PETA and Spain-based Abolición Vivisección uncovered evidence revealing former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, who oversaw FWS when the agency was actively investigating the illicit Cambodian primate trade, recently visited monkey breeding facilities in Cambodia with a Charles River executive, raising concerns that he may have used his connections in the agency to advocate for Charles River’s interests.
PETA and Born Free USA have offered to help secure lifetime sanctuary placement for the monkeys—and PETA even offered a million dollars toward their care. Still, they languish in barren cages. And now, through possible back-room deals, they could end up in the hands of the monkey dealers who illegally imported them. Please help prevent that from happening by taking action below.
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The more than 1,000 endangered long-tailed macaques allegedly illegally brought to the U.S. from Cambodia need your help today. PETA and Born Free USA are operating in good faith—but apparently the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is not. The monkeys, imported from Cambodia by animal testing giant Charles River Laboratories, should be given the chance to go to the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Texas, and the feds have to step up to make that happen.
PETA wants the government to stop stalling and come to an agreement now for the release of these monkeys and to compel Charles River to pay for their lifetime care. PETA demands to know where these monkeys are and why, since they can’t be returned to their natural homes or used in meaningless experiments, they are apparently still languishing in barren steel cages in laboratories.
The secretary of the interior must take action now and direct the Fish & Wildlife Service to arrange for the lifetime cost and care of these monkeys’ sanctuary. Under no circumstances should Charles River, which has enjoyed hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with the U.S. government and is under federal criminal and civil investigation for possible violations of monkey-importation laws, be allowed to profit off the animals or send them to another country.
Please take action today to urge the secretary of the interior to send these monkeys to sanctuary!