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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

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Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Thank you Air Canada! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news!

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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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The Thing About Colombia

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The government of Colombia was involved in a long-simmering and occasionally boiling war with guerilla groups in the rural parts of the country. Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. The list goes on and on and on.

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