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Macaques enjoy warm climate wherever they can forage for crabs, this is why they are usually found on the coas
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New info on imports:
Despite evidence that deadly pathogens, which includes one considered to be a bioterrorism risk, are flooding the country with primates and recent allegations of illegal trafficking of wild macaques falsely labeled as captive-bred into the US biomedical industry from Cambodia, US authorities are continuing to permit imports of long-tailed macaques.
Campaigners for animal rights are pleading with the US government to end the "cruel trade," arguing that it is impossible to establish provenance and that there is a considerable danger of disease.
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Cambodian official smuggles monkeys:
8 individuals including a Cambodian wildlife officer who was detained in the United States while en route to a conference on the protection of endangered species, have been accused by federal prosecutors with smuggling endangered monkeys. The official was involved in raising long-tailed macaques for scientific and academic study and supplying them to labs in Florida and Texas, along with a colleague from that nation's wildlife agency and six individuals affiliated to a Hong Kong-based business.
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As of last August, the species is now endangered instead of vulnerable:
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has upgraded the long-tailed macaque's conservation status from "at-risk" to "endangered," with populations in the wild expected to decline by another 50% over the next 40 years if the present dangers are not dealt with.
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Lab research:
Due to the enormous demand for laboratory monkeys in the United States and the small supply at breeding facilities both domestically and overseas, it is thought that smuggling of monkeys caught in the wild has been going on for years. The arrival of the pandemic and the race to develop a Covid vaccine, according to experts, further constrained the market and sparked a mad scramble for animals that fueled a rise in monkey poaching and contributed to the endangerment of the long-tailed macaque species, which is the species most frequently used in drug studies.