For Immediate Release:
10 October 2024
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Meet Ashar; AsharM@petaindia.org
Hiraj Laljani; HirajL@petaindia.org
Gwalior – Acting on a complaint from a concerned citizen, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, successfully rescued a rhesus macaque monkey being illegally held at a temple in Lashkar, Gwalior. The monkey has now been safely released back into the wild.
The video of the chained monkey and the animal’s release can be available upon request.
“We commend Divisional Forest Officer Gwalior Shri Ankit Pandey, IFS, for working with PETA India to rescue this chained monkey from a grim situation,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Virendra Singh. “PETA India urges anyone who learns of cruelty to animals to report it to a local animal protection group and the police or, when wildlife is involved, the local forest department.”
Monkeys kept in people’s homes as “pets” or to be forced to dance are often chained or confined to cramped cages. When used for entertainment, they are typically trained through beating and food deprivation, and their teeth are commonly pulled out to prevent them from defending themselves. In 1998, the central government issued a notification under The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, stating that monkeys and several other species of wild animals are not to be exhibited or trained as performing animals.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Facebook, Instagram, or X.
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