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Urge the Thai Government to Stop Monkey Labour

As PETA Asia investigations have exposed, endangered and vulnerable monkeys suffer in the Thai coconut industry, in which they’re forced into labour on coconut farms. These highly social individuals, who would normally live and thrive in large groups, are violently torn away from everyone they know and chained in isolation at “training schools” without adequate food, water, shade, or companionship. Handlers intimidate and abuse them, forcing them to obey.

 

When their “training” is complete, the monkeys are sold to coconut pickers. At one farm investigators visited, an employee revealed that while the monkeys are climbing trees, they’re frequently bitten by ants and stung by hornets, and the animals sometimes sustain broken bones from falling or being violently yanked out of trees.

Please urge the Thai government to put an end to this cruelty by shutting down “monkey-training schools” and making forced monkey labour illegal. Thailand has a duty to protect these monkeys from the cruel coconut industry and spare them miserable living conditions and death or abandonment when they become old, sick, or injured and are deemed useless.

The Honourable
Narumon
Pinyosinwat, PhD
Thai Government
Mr
Thani
Thongphakdi
Thai Government
Her Excellency
Paetongtarn
Shinawatra
Thai Government

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