The message below is from the Animal Alliance of Canada/Animal Protection Party of Canada. Please support them in their work to help the monkeys!

This Giving Tuesday, please help us stop the importation of monkeys from Cambodia to Canada to be harmed and abused in research laboratories.

Animal Alliance of Canada is working with international advocacy partners to bring an end to this shameful trade. Those monkeys need our help. Those monkeys need you!

Will you help this Giving Tuesday by donating today?

The Emotional Lives of Monkeys:

Long-tailed macaques, the monkeys being shipped from Cambodia, are deeply social, with complex family structures. Mothers bond closely with their children, nurturing and protecting them. Females form strong ties in family groups. They communicate and stay connected through vocalizations, facial expressions and body postures. They also groom each other extensively, which strengthens their social bonds.

They are highly sensitive animals who have evolved to live together for support and emotional comfort. The family group is everything!

Tragically, macaques are frequently used in research, even exposed to the highest categories of pain allowed in Canadian labs. Their suffering begins before they are put into barren laboratory cages to be treated in ways that can surely be called torture.

Imagine the distress inflicted on an entire family group when some of their members are captured. Imagine too, the extreme distress of the captured individuals who will never again be part of the family they were born into, a community they have evolved to rely and depend on for every need.

Now imagine being shut up in a dark crate, and then placed into a cargo hold of a plane, with all of the noise and rough handling that involves. What lies ahead of them at the research lab is the absolute end of any kind of life that a monkey should ever experience.

Canada’s Shame:

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service uncovered an alleged international monkey smuggling ring after an extensive investigation. They suspended all imports of primates from Cambodia in response.

How did Canadian authorities respond to the exposure of the alleged monkey smuggling? Did Canadian authorities follow the example of their U.S. counterparts and also ban all importation of monkeys from Cambodia? No. They did not.

In a slap in the face to every socially responsible Canadian, our authorities did nothing. As a result, the numbers of endangered Long-tailed macaques being imported to our nation has sharply increased.

You Can Help:

Please, stand with us – stand with the monkeys of Cambodia – as we work with an international coalition to stop all shipments of monkeys from Cambodia to Canada.

We continue to work toward the complete elimination of all animals being used in research and testing. Until that day, we engage in actions like this to protect those we can, and reduce the numbers of animals made to suffer so cruelly. What we know for sure is that, whether wild caught or captive-bred, no animal should be made to endure the horrors of being used in research.

Please click here to donate to help us fight to keep monkey families together in their natural homes.

Thank you!