An animal welfare organization is calling for a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded biomedical research company not to return a shipment of over 1,000 monkeys back to Cambodia after federal agencies flagged the shipment last year.
Liz Tyson Griffin, programs director and head of sanctuary at Born Free USA, said in a March 16 press release that the organization communicated to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services its willingness to provide a lifetime sanctuary for the long-tail macaques.
On March 13, Born Free USA said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services announced that the monkeys would be sent back to Cambodia, where they would be reintroduced “into the same illegal system and end their short lives in a laboratory.”…