Help end experiments on primates

  • by: KELLY ROGERS
  • recipient:  The Hon Tony Burke, Minister for Environment The Hon Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Health

Investigators from the British Union Against Vivisection found that wild-caught pigtail macaques captured on Tinjil Island, in Indonesia, were being misclassified as 'born in captivity'. Tinjil Island is the source of macaque exports to Australia. Since 2009, Australia has imported at least 391 macaques from Indonesia -- a species already in danger of being listed as threatened.

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