Activists ground primate flights

摘要

Each year, thousands of macaques and other monkeys are flown into Europe and North America to supply academic and industrial research labs - more than 18,000 to the United States in 2011 alone. But in a campaign that could affect scientists across the West, the few major air carriers that still transport non-human primates are coming under unprecedented pressure to halt the practice. One key route under threat is from China, which last year shipped more than 70% of the research primates sent to the United States (see 'Up in the air'). On 14 March, animal breeders in China met with officials of China Southern Airlines to implore them to resume flights into Los Angeles International Airport, the largest US port of entry for research primates.