When the CNRS' primatology station in Rousset took in monkeys from zoos and circuses
As part of our opposition to the expansion of the primatology station in Rousset (13790), located in the Bouches-du-Rhône region, with a view to transforming it into a national centre, we contacted the CNRS. They sent us some documents that were disturbing, to say the least…
In addition to the many monkeys that are being passed from test to test between French laboratories, there are also primates from zoos and circuses that have been torn from their natural environment?! So this is what the hidden side of French research looks like?!
Circuses and zoos love their animals so much that they offer them up to science
When they no longer need them after years of lining their pockets at their expense, they send them to laboratories. For some, there is no hesitating: between rehabilitation and pushing their exploitation to the extreme, the choice is obvious.
Circuses and zoos love their animals so much that they offer them up to science
When they no longer need them after years of lining their pockets at their expense, they send them to laboratories. For some, there is no hesitating: between rehabilitation and pushing their exploitation to the extreme, the choice is obvious.
Never released, always reused
Monkeys travel like parcels from one centre of experimentation to another. Loaned, exchanged, manipulated, for the humans who work there, only their utilitarian value counts. They are simply considered as experimental material. Females in particular, seen as breeding machines, have their bodies exploited twice: in tests and for their wombs.
Primates illegally captured in their natural habitat?
“Unknown origin”: a convenient phrase to avoid having to write “torn from their forest” or “taken from their families”.
These practices, although prohibited by European Directive 2010/63/EU, continue to exist, as our investigation in the summer of 2023 clearly demonstrated.
To call for an end to these practices and a review of the National Primatology Centre project, join us on Saturday 26 April 2025 in front of Town Hall in Rousset and throughout France!