Asian monkeys continue to dominate world animal trade in 2009

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IPPL has received from the Fish and Wildlife Service the live primate

importation records dating from 1 January to 30 June, 2009. Anyone

wishing to receive a full Excel spread-sheet please send us their

private e-mail address. We are trying with no success to get

comparison matching data from CDC and Customs, the latter agency has

become extremely arrogant. We are not clear whether shipments

imported on US military planes would be declared, as no military

bases are named among the importers, and feel the number we have may

be a minimum. Other monkeys may come in as concealed cross-border

shipments by or under land borders, or by small boats. All imported

monkeys are fed into approved CDC quarantine stations unless a

facility maintains its own quarantine.

 

China is increasing its dominance as a supplier of a

non-native-to-China species (the crab-eating macaque) to world

markets. Either there are a lot of Chinese exporters or some dealers

use several names (maybe both). There are also suspicions that China

is importing monkeys from Cambodia for re-export under false

" captive-born " papers. Note that Houston is no longer a port of

entry. Los Angeles is by far the biggest port of entry for primates

as there are direct flights from China. Notable by their absence are

any great apes, all protected by their CITES Appendix I listing.

 

There are two separate entries on the spread-sheet for imports by

Covance and Charles River, maybe due to the way the shipments are recorded.

 

Very few monkeys are imported these days by zoos. Omaha imported 14

black sakis from Guyana and Natural Bridge Zoo 8 spider monkeys from

Guatemala. It is illegal to import monkeys for the pet trade and to

the best of my knowledge no US sanctuary has a quarantine license so

international " rescues " are not feasible.

 

Primates by country of origin in descending order:

 

China: 7,308

Mauritius: 2,166

Vietnam: 1,559

Cambodia: 600

Philippines: 200

Saint Kitts and Nevis: 158

Israel: 120

Barbados: 36

Peru: 20

Guyana: 14

Guatemala: 8

France: 7

Canada, 1 (cross-border chimp transfer)

TOTAL: 12,197

 

By species in descending order:

 

Macaca fascicularis: 11,177 (crab-eating macaque aka long tailed macaque)

Macaca mulatta: 776 (rhesus macaque)

Chlorocebus aethiops: 194 (African green or vervet/grivet monkey)

Aotus nancymae: 20 (Owl monkey)

Chiropotes chiropotes: 14 (black saki monkey)

Ateles geoffroyi: 8 (spider monkey)

Microcebus murinus: 6 (mouse lemur)

Nomascus leocogenys: 1 (white-cheeked gibbon)

Pan troglodytes: 1 (cross-border in and out chimpanzee)

 

By port of entry in descending order:

 

Los Angeles: CA 7,789

Chicago, IL: 2,480

New York, NY: 1,334

Miami, FL: 214

San Francisco, CA: 200

Dulles Int'l. Airport: VA 90

Buffalo, NY: 76

Atlanta, GA: 14

 

By foreign exporter

 

1,878: Huazheng Laboratory Animal Breeding Center (China)

1,679: Nafovanny (Vietnam)

1,171: Bioculture Mauritius (Mauritius)

740: Guangzhou Blooming Spring Biological Technology Development (China)

720: Guangxi Weimei Bio-Tech Co. (China)

656: Beijing Piliyuan Trading Ltd. (China)

600: Angkor Primates Center (Cambodia)

509: Yunan Laboratory Primate Inc. (China)

500: Hainan Jingang Laboratory Animals Co., China)

480: Noveprim, (Mauritius)

360: Fang Cheng Gang Spring Biological Technology Development Co, (China)

280: China National Scientific Instruments (China)

275: Biodia Co. Ltd. (Mauritius)

240: Guangdong Landau Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (China)

240: Les Campches Ltee. (Mauritius)

240: Wing Freight Agent Ltd. Zhang Tao, (China)

200: Scientific Primates Filipinas, Inc. Vallestro, (Philippines)

181: Conghua City Yueyuan Animal Breeding Farm at Qigan (China)

164: Gaoyao Kangda Laboratory Animals Science and Technology Co. (China)

158: Primate Resources International (Kenya)

120: B.F.C - Monkey Breeding Farm (Israel)

120: Beijing Grandforest Trading Co. (China)

120: Beijing Ultimate Biosci. Co, (China)

120: Biomedical Research GZ), LTD. Wanpin Wen (China)

120: Guangdong Scientific Instruments and Materials Ye Yiyun, (China)

120: Suzhou Jin Nuo Import and Export Co. Ltd. (China)

120: Tianjin Jinxin Import and Export Corp. Ltd. (China)

36: Barbados Primate Research Center (Barbados)

20: Instituto de Investigaciones Tropicales y de Altura (Peru)

14: Bester Birds and Animal Zoo Park (South Africa)

8: Mascotas Exclusivas (Guatemala)

6: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France)

1: Parc Zoologique de Cleres (France)

 

By US importer

 

4,377: Covance Research Products,

1,440: Charles River Lab

1,208: Charles River Laboratories, BRF

1,200: Covance Research Products, INC.

960: SNBL USA, LTD. (Japanese-based firm)

640: Harlan Sprague Dawley, Inc.

506: Worldwide Primates, Inc.

441: Primates Products, Inc.

360: Charles River Lab, Sierra Division

360: Shared Enterprises (Hsu)

200: New Iberia Research Center, University of Louisiana

164: Valley Biosystems, Inc.

116: Alphagenesis, Inc.

105: Buckshire Corporation

90: Bioreliance Katrina Camnara

14: Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo

8: Natural Bridge Zoo

6: University of Texas at Austin

1: Gibbon Conservation Center

1: Steve Martin's Working Wildlife (one chimp, import/export, Canada)

 

 

 

Dr. Shirley McGreal, OBE, Chairwoman

International Primate Protection League

PO Box 766

Summerville, SC 29484, USA

Phone - 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988

E-mail - smcgreal, Web: www.ippl.org

 

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