![]() ![]() Monkey import is a massive industry that operates beyond our imaginations with legal imports on one end and trafficking of monkey at large scale at other end. Monkeys are selected over other animals because of their genetic and other similarities with humans. Though monkeys are imported for various reasons including for meat, pets, zoos and circuses, the main reason for import of monkeys remains medically related research including testing of drugs, vaccines, transplants and infectious diseases of the brain and other organs. ![]() Therefore exporting 100,000 monkeys to China in the first phase would reduce the population by at least 50% and can lead to serious environmental imbalances. Therefore obviously the numbers of Toque macaque cannot be 3 million and at the higher end we can estimate around 200,000. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the gelada as one of the most populous species, having a total population of about 200,000 individuals. Out of more than 200 species of monkeys in the world today, monkeys can be elusive in the wild and they are hard to count as individuals. It shows that the international experts are of the opinion that Toque macaques are decreasing in numbers over the time. Specifically, Toque macaques are listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, 2015), appearing on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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