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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

Critter News

Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research.

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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. A laughing matter (Japan was first to laugh at it, saying it doesn’t give a …, well, not in those exact words). Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa.

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