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PETA has learned that U.S. and Canadian officials, likely at the behest of corporate interests, worked in concert to convince an international regulatory body to delay suspending the trade of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia, a country that a U.S. investigation showed was passing off monkeys poached from forests as captive-bred.
The staggering decision of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Standing Committee to punt its own Secretariat’s recommendation to suspend this trade protects the profits of U.S. corporations like Charles River Laboratories, not animals or Canadian values.
A January 2025 survey conducted by Canada’s premier polling and market research firm, Abacus Data, found that the majority—64 percent—of Canadians oppose the importation of endangered monkeys for experimentation, while only 16 percent support it.
Yet Canadian officials continue to do America’s dirty work by allowing Charles River to import monkeys from Cambodia, chop them to bits, and ship pieces of their bodies to the U.S.
The CITES Secretariat recommended against importing monkeys from Cambodia after the country was caught falsifying export paperwork and laundering tens of thousands of wild-caught monkeys into the laboratory supply chain. There is no proof that anything has changed.
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