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Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?

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1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify             HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories,  the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,  and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]

Crocodile tears in the monkey labs as Charles River suspends imports

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Charles River is latest monkey supplier named in wild-caught macaque smuggling case BETHESDA, Maryland––Laboratory monkey users and investors in the laboratory monkey business are shedding crocodile tears to mass media about an alleged monkey shortage jeopardizing public health by delaying approval of new drugs and medical procedures. No less an authority than the National Institutes […]

International animal advocacy influencer Brian Davies dies at 87

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Founded IFAW to fight the Atlantic Canada seal hunt             CAPE COD,  Massachusetts––Brian Davies,  87,  founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare,  Network for Animals,  the Political Animal Lobby,  and Animal Survival International,  died after a prolonged illness on December 27,  2022. Born on February 4,  1935 in Tonyrefail,  Wales,  an impoverished mining village,  […]

Monkey-laundering? Busts of lab suppliers follow 15 years of warnings

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Wild-caught macaques may have flooded into U.S. labs for more than 15 years before the feds moved to stop the traffic HONG KONG–Did a small amount of monkey-eating in southern China cover for the development of large amount of monkey trafficking from the wild to U.S. labs? ANIMALS 24-7 and the International Primate Protection League […]

Lab animal supplier Inotiv allegedly sold smuggled monkeys

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Company hits trifecta:  alleged monkey-trafficking,  mass neglect of beagles,  & accused of stock fraud MIAMI,  Florida––It isn’t easy to get caught in the middle of the biggest monkey-smuggling case associated with biomedical research,  the biggest beagle neglect case in the history of vivisection,  and the alleged biggest pump-and-dump stock-selling scandal to hit biomedical research investors,  […]

Bamboo, 56, last Seattle zoo elephant, euthanized in Oklahoma City

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Her life story was the story of most U.S. zoo elephants OKLAHOMA CITY,  Oklahoma––“Where will Woodland Park Zoo elephants be sent to die?”,  ANIMALS 24-7 asked on December 7,  2014,  as the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle finalized plans to transfer Chai and Bamboo,  the last two elephants to reside there,  to the Oklahoma City Zoo. That […]

Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project celebrates a triple dolphin release in Bali

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Culminates 12-year campaign BALI,  Indonesia––Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project on September 3,  2022 celebrated the release into the open ocean of the bottlenose dolphins Johnny,  Rocky,  and Rambo,  after three years of rehabilitation and a decade-long campaign to free them from the captive dolphin exhibition industry. “We’re tracking them now,”  Ric O’Barry emailed to ANIMALS 24-7. […]

Ram fighting charges out of history to butt civilization in the ass

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Gambling pastime found in the Bible             LAGOS,  Nigeria;  BANGALORE,  India––“Ram fighting during,  but not limited to,  the Eid period,  and involving not just Muslims,  seems to have become a gold mine in Nigeria,”  a Muslim reader informed ANIMALS 24-7 shortly after the Feast of Eid al Adha on July 9,  2022. A ram fight […]

Hoofed animals worldwide put at risk by foot-&-mouth outbreak in Indonesia

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Fatwa allowing Eid-al-Adha slaughter of “mildly ill” animals spares some from slaughter,  but may expose thousands more  JAKARTA, Indonesia––Simultaneous foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks among cattle in Aceh and Java provinces,  1,650 miles apart,  have just about everyone in the cattle,  sheep,  goat,  and pig industries worried that a global foot-and-mouth disease pandemic may be just ahead. […]

Bali: rabies is back. Vaccines can stop it. Killing dogs cannot. Will officials listen?

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The time to vaccinate is now,  ahead of recovering tourism & ahead of panic BALI,  Indonesia––Tourism to Bali is back,  rebounding from a two-year bout with COVID-19,  but resurgent canine rabies may menace the Balinese economic recovery. That can practically be guaranteed if the Bali government repeats past mistakes,  trying to kill rabies by killing […]