PROGRESS! PETA has helped deliver the latest blow to the cruel animal experimentation industry as an important international regulatory body has recommended a halt to the export of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia.

The move by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat should stop Charles River Laboratories’ recent end-run around a U.S. de facto ban on importing macaques from Cambodia and PETA applauds it.

Charles River, the world’s largest breeder of animals for use in experiments, has been importing Cambodian-origin monkeys into Canada and then shipping body parts from those monkeys into the U.S. from north of the border. Canada imported more than 6,500 Cambodian-origin long-tailed macaques between May 2023 and December 2024.

The move by CITES—a treaty signed by 185 countries that seeks to ensure the trade of wild animals and plants is legal, sustainable, and traceable—should stop this despicable attempt to get  around the U.S. suspension .  

The decision comes after compelling reports that PETA submitted to the organization and a five-year U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service investigation documenting widespread monkey smuggling and laundering in Cambodia.

Long-tailed macaques are being driven to the brink of extinction, in large part due to the international wildlife trade that feeds the insatiable appetite of laboratories like Charles River.

What You Can Do

Please TAKE ACTION and urge the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to compel the Fish & Wildlife Service to release to sanctuary the remaining 1,269 long-tailed macaques of Cambodian origin that are in legal limbo after being imported by Charles River.

Please also urge Canadian officials to abide by the CITES decision and stop allowing the importation of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia:

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