AR-News: Nepal Activists Say No Monkey Exports for Lab Tests

[Animalconcerns]

[from OneWorld]

KATHMANDU, Feb 2 (OneWorld) - Animal rights activists are protesting
against an agreement between the Nepalese government and local
nongovernmental organization (NGO), the Natural History Society of Nepal
(NHSN), to breed thousands of rhesus monkeys, allegedly for supply to US
laboratories.

According to the letter of intent, the government will deliver 150 monkeys
to the US as soon as NHSN establishes basic infrastructure to breed them.
Along with monkeys, the government has already permitted another NGO to
begin the commercial breeding of snakes.

Activists say the US annually requires over 14,000 monkeys for research.
They have demanded an immediate halt to the breeding and capture of
animals for export. 

full story:
http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/78088/1/

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