These are establishments where local people rent out rooms in their homes to paying guests with breakfast included. But nothing like what really happened. (Rhesus macaques, another heavily used monkey species in U.S. biomedical research, are mostly used by the academic community, which largely obtains them from national primate research centers.) The ANA emphasised that no monkeys would be harmed or killed as a result of this operation. Honda Monkey 125cc 2022 price $3650 Used posted by Meng Meng 168 MengMeng 168 . But the nearly 50-year-old system is infamous for legal loopholes and data deficiencies. The irony and tragedy for the macaques is that the same person supposed to protect and conserve the species has been indicted for the very opposite plundering the wild populations.. According to the IUCN, there are over 65,000 pileated gibbons worldwide, with Cambodia accounting for more than half of that total. Nearly 30,000 entered the country last year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which regulates the import of nonhuman primates. Indictment of monkey importers could disrupt U.S. drug and vaccine Photos by Anton L. Delgado for Southeast Asia Globe. We shooed them but they didnt budge. New Investigation Exposes Horrifying, Hidden Cruelty to Baby Monkeys in Please make a tax-deductible gift today. He said only the most troublesome animals had been removed. Dear all beloved viewers, Our channel was created to document the daily lives of monkeys habitating in Angkor Archaeological Area, approximately 8 km from Si. It is an amazing destination and definitely one of the bucket list places to visit once in a lifetime. Previous. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged two Cambodian wildlife officials and several members of a Hong Kong-based primate supply company with illegally exporting hundredsand potentially more than 2000 cynomolgus macaques, an endangered species, to the United States for research. Cambodia is a ratified party of CITES. Pheaktra went on to say that the pig-tailed macaque is on the International Union for Conservation of Natures (IUCN) Red List of threatened species. The shipments that arrive in the U.S. hold enormous value: One, of 396 long-tailed macaques on Nov. 11, 2020, was worth more than $1 million, the indictment states. "They have been released into the forest near Tnort Chum commune's Prey Khla village, in . The company did not respond to a request for comment but in a public release strongly denied any wrongdoing. Those listed in mass are probably tissue from organs such as the brain, liver or muscles. Several comments below the videos expressed dismay at the way the macaques were removed but many supported the authorities actions and pointed out that there was a dispute as to what had taken place.