Monkey bust in Malaysia

[Guest guest]

I hope I'm not the only one who sees a connection between

this item immediately below, posted by Shirley McGreal, and the

item below it, posted yesterday by John Wedderburn.

 

There is no way that " fewer than 100 crab-eating macaques "

could breed up to " more than 12,000 " in just four years. The math

just doesn't work.

 

Xie Liping and others like her must therefore be receiving

monkeys from other sources. Sounds to me as if we have

monkey-laundering going on.

 

The documented level of monkey-eating in China is very low,

but the existence of any provides the opportunity for traders to

pretend that they are selling for consumption, while actually

selling to dealers who will in turn pretend that the monkeys are

captive-bred, & therefore legal for export.

 

Think I'm paranoid? This sort of racket has been exposed

many times in the past--as Shirley McGreal more than anyone else

should remember, since she did much of the exposing.

 

 

 

Monday July 9, 2007

 

Wildlife smuggling ring busted, 950 monkeys rescued

 

By MEERA VIJAYAN

 

KLUANG: One of the largest wildlife smuggling syndicates in the

country has been crippled with the arrest of four men and rescue of

around 950 illegally captured monkeys.

 

The monkeys, captured from the jungles of the central state of Pahang

and the southern state of Johor, are believed to have been headed for

either China or Holland.

 

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/9/nation/20070709182654 & sec=na\

tion

 

 

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South China Morning Post

9th July 2007

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Soaring demand from US scientists spurs boom in raising primates

by Stephen Chen

 

The monkey-breeding business is booming on the mainland as demand from US

bio-defence programmes rises. Stephen Chen finds that domestic demand is

also growing, and more overseas laboratories are setting up research

facilities on the mainland where there is less interference from animal

rights activists.

 

Xie Liping politely turns down a request to visit the core of her primate

breeding centre in Nanning, saying the reason is purely technical.

 

" We must ensure the monkeys are not contaminated by humans, " said Ms Xie,

the owner of Guangxi Weimei Bio-Tech Company.

 

Ms Xie runs one of the biggest primate breeding centres in Guangxi , a

region that produces half of the nation's monkeys used for experiments.

 

She started four years ago with fewer than 100 crab-eating macaques and now

has more than 12,000. When a huge expansion project - covering the

equivalent of 31 soccer fields - is completed next year, 50 barracks wrapped

in shiny steel bars will be home to 20,000 monkeys.

 

 

 

 

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