Even when lab monkeys are given stuffed toys for comfort, they suffer miserable lives & deaths ICHIKAWA, Japan––The most famous Japanese macaque ever is doubtless Panchi-kun, called Punch for short in English. Born at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan on July 25, 2025, abandoned by his mother, Punch was bottle-fed by keepers, then introduced into […]
Jane Goodall, 91, defied scientific & ecological convention all her life
Beloved by the public, Goodall often left dogmatic authorities to rage like frustrated chimps PASADENA, California––Jane Goodall, 91, a British citizen originally best known for chimpanzee research done at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, during the first half of her 65-year professional career, and later as an international humane ambassador, died in California on October 1, 2025 […]
Can one baby gorilla rescued in Istanbul stop the deadly great ape traffic?
The Istanbul baby gorilla is one among thousands bootlegged out of war-torn central Africa ISTANBUL, Turkey––An approximately eight-month-old baby western lowland gorilla, rescued from a coffin-like wooden crate on December 22, 2024 at the Istanbul Airport in Turkey, may be the “missing link” between two of the other horrific stories in the news that day. […]
Behind the Alpha Genesis monkey “great escape” & recaptures
Forty-three rhesus macaques made a jailbreak, but then didn’t know where to go, or how YEMASSEE, North Carolina–– Eighteen of forty-three young female rhesus macaques who escaped on November 6, 2024 from an Alpha Genesis research colony in Yemassee, South Carolina remained at large through the Veterans Day weekend, but 25 had been recaptured. The […]
Monkey-laundering? Busts of lab suppliers follow 15 years of warnings
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
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, […]
Wildlife Friends to evacuate Phuket Zoo; PETA did zip but claims credit
Notorious as one of the world’s worst zoos for 25 years PHUKET, Thailand––The first good-news animal story of 2022, if all goes according to plan, may be the impending evacuation of 11 tigers and two bears from the defunct Phuket Zoo, a target of animal advocacy protest almost from the day it opened in 1996. […]
European zoos consider killing “surplus” gorillas
The algebra of zoo management is Harambe times X-number equals what amount of public outrage cutting into profits? AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands––Is the European Association of Zoos & Aquaria heading full speed toward the 2016 Harambe debacle at the Cincinnati Zoo times a dozen? Or a hundred? Or any number in between? Did someone among the 340 […]
Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands
Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments, below. Geoffrey Deckers, 51, co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend], died suddenly on June 29, 2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 2017, but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]
Queen Elizabeth II honors Thai street dog rescuer John Dalley
Global recognition for Soi Dog Foundation PHUKET, Thailand––John Dalley, co-founder and president of Soi Dog Foundation International, was on October 10, 2020, the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for service to animal welfare in Southeast Asia. The term “Soi […]