The letter stated Cambodia’s six operational monkey farms had a total stock of nearly 56,000 macaques in 2014, a year when the Kingdom exported barely 5,000.
56,000 bred macaques
5,000 exported macaques
Based on these numbers, the Australia-based researchers calculated the farms would need about 103,000 macaques to support the roughly 33,000 exported in 2020. That’s likely a conservative estimate, they said, based on factors including infant mortality and fertility rates.
103,000 bred macaques
(estimated)
33,000 exported macaques
“To see such a rise in such a short period of time, it is almost astounding to the point where you almost have to ask: If it is real, they are doing something incredible. And if it’s not real, then they are doing something quite questionable,” said Regina Warne, lead authority of the study.
Adding to the researchers’ doubt is how farms more than doubled exports from 2019, when just under 14,000 monkeys were traded. According to CITES data, Cambodia maintained its high levels in 2021, trading 31,000 macaques.
The letter stated Cambodia’s six operational monkey farms had a total stock of nearly 56,000 macaques in 2014, a year when the Kingdom exported barely 5,000.
56,000 bred macaques
5,000 exported macaques
Based on these numbers, the Australia-based researchers calculated the farms would need about 103,000 macaques to support the roughly 33,000 exported in 2020. That’s likely a conservative estimate, they said, based on factors including infant mortality and fertility rates.
103,000 bred macaques
(estimated)
33,000 exported macaques
“To see such a rise in such a short period of time, it is almost astounding to the point where you almost have to ask: If it is real, they are doing something incredible. And if it’s not real, then they are doing something quite questionable,” said Regina Warne, lead authority of the study.
Adding to the researchers’ doubt is how farms more than doubled exports from 2019, when just under 14,000 monkeys were traded. According to CITES data, Cambodia maintained its high levels in 2021, trading 31,000 macaques.
The letter stated Cambodia’s six operational monkey farms had a total stock of nearly 56,000 macaques in 2014, a year when the Kingdom exported barely 5,000.
56,000 bred macaques
5,000 exported macaques
Based on these numbers, the Australia-based researchers calculated the farms would need about 103,000 macaques to support the roughly 33,000 exported in 2020. That’s likely a conservative estimate, they said, based on factors including infant mortality and fertility rates.
103,000 bred macaques
(estimated)
33,000 exported macaques
“To see such a rise in such a short period of time, it is almost astounding to the point where you almost have to ask: If it is real, they are doing something incredible. And if it’s not real, then they are doing something quite questionable,” said Regina Warne, lead authority of the study.
Adding to the researchers’ doubt is how farms more than doubled exports from 2019, when just under 14,000 monkeys were traded. According to CITES data, Cambodia maintained its high levels in 2021, trading 31,000 macaques.