Texas Biomedical Research Institute helped subdue the coronavirus and has big plans for combating future threats with controversial help from primates.
“I am very happy to hear this,” Sanjeeva Jayawardena, the President's Counsel, is cited as having said. “These monkeys will end up in Chinese restaurants.”
Animal rights groups welcomed the decision, fearing toque macaques would end up in restaurants and labs rather than zoos. This type of monkey cannot survive long outside its natural environment. Some 30 groups turned to the courts to stop any deal.
COLOMBO Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 petitioners who went to court against the proposal, said on Monday (June 26) . The island nation, facing its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades, was considering a proposal.
Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 petitioners who went to court against the proposal, said on Monday.