Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.-based laboratory that uses the animals as subjects of science experiments, Africanews reported Monday.
Africanews based much of its January 31 report on an original article published by the PhillyVoice on January 28, which itself cited a letter to the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) written by Kenya Airways Chairman Michael Joseph as its information source.
Joseph told PETA it plans “to end the transport of all wild animals and will stop shipping macaques” when its contract with a primate farm in Mauritius terminates at the end of February.
PETA reached out to Joseph after a Kenya Airways-facilitated macaque shipment…
