Animal welfare groups warn Cambodian monkeys imported for labs could be illegally wild-caught

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Open this photo in gallery: Long-tailed macaques at a monkey farm in Cambodia.Handout Canada should follow the lead of the United States and refuse to approve the import of Cambodian monkeys for use in Canadian labs, animal-welfare groups say. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been denying permits for the import of Cambodian macaques after an investigation found evidence that thousands of monkeys caught in the wild have been smuggled to the U.S. from Cambodia. Animal-welfare groups are asking Ottawa to deny approvals here, warning some monkeys being imported could have been illegally caught in the wild and passed...