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In the Thai coconut industry, endangered and vulnerable baby monkeys are torn away from their mothers and placed in “training schools,” where workers confine them, isolate them, and break their spirits during forced training—all so they can be used to pick coconuts.
Some of these baby monkeys are reportedly born in the training camps, never knowing a day of freedom. Others are illegally and violently abducted from their families in the forest. These sensitive, highly social babies are chained in isolation without adequate food, water, shade, or companionship. In nature, they would remain with their mothers and live in large social groups.
Please urge the Royal Thai Embassy in the US to do everything in its power to help shut down “monkey-training schools” and make forced monkey labor illegal. The embassy can use its influence and connections to help protect these monkeys and prevent them from enduring misery for the sake of coconuts.