Monkey Town

Report on Monkey Town Primate Centre Somerset West
by Karen Trendler, November 2008
On behalf of Animal Rights Africa

The complaints, discussions and subsequent visit indicate that there are very serious welfare, legal, ethical and conservation concerns at Monkey Town, with inadequate to absent management, maintenance, husbandry and veterinary care of the animals to the extent that there is blatant neglect, negligence and in some cases cruelty.

Sadly this has not been a short term or temporary situation to appears to have been ongoing and with further deterioration and no apparent effort or willingness on behalf of the owner to rectify the situation or address the problems.

Without the commitment of the volunteers, the situation would be considerably worse and they have, within their limited capacity and with limited resources, tried to improve life for the animals.

Something needs to be done urgently about the conditions at Monkey Town.

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Monkeytown Report by Karen Trendler Nov 2008.pdf