{"id":53601,"date":"2023-03-20T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/trafficked-lab-monkeys-cambodia-us-investigation"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:00:06","slug":"fate-of-1000-trafficked-lab-monkeys-at-center-of-us-investigation-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53601","title":{"rendered":"Fate of 1,000 trafficked lab monkeys at center of US investigation in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups say<\/p>\n<p>More than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of being killed or returned to their country of origin, laundered and re-trafficked, animal welfare groups say.<\/p>\n<p>The monkeys\u2019 plight first came to light last year when the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) asked animal rights organization, Peta, about finding a sanctuary for 360 monkeys. Born Free USA, and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) later joined the discussions and the number of monkeys increased to over 1,000 as talks progressed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/trafficked-lab-monkeys-cambodia-us-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups sayMore than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,361,464,512,299,47,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-cambodia","category-endangered-species","category-medical-research","category-science","category-us-news","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53601\/revisions\/53624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}