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As PETA Asia investigations have exposed, endangered and vulnerable monkeys suffer in the Thai coconut industry, in which they’re forced into labor on coconut farms. These highly social individuals, who would normally live and thrive in large groups, are violently torn away from everyone they know and chained in isolation at “training schools” without adequate food, water, shade, or companionship. Handlers intimidate and abuse them, forcing them to obey.
When their “training” is complete, the monkeys are sold to coconut pickers. An employee at one farm investigators visited revealed that while the monkeys are climbing trees, they’re frequently bitten by ants and stung by hornets, and the animals sometimes sustain broken bones from falling or being violently yanked out of trees.
Please urge the Thai government to put an end to this cruelty by shutting down “monkey-training schools” and making forced monkey labor illegal. Thailand has a duty to protect these monkeys and prevent them from enduring miserable living conditions until they die or are abandoned when they become old, sick, or injured and are deemed useless by the cruel coconut industry.