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    The shocking truth about the UK’s primate trade

    Nov 18, 2021 6 minutes
    By LEOMA WILLIAMS

    CURRENTLY, IF I SO WISHED, I could walk into my local pet shop and buy a monkey. I wouldn’t need to get a licence, there would be no home check, and I probably wouldn’t even be asked how I would care for it. Where do I live? Manchester.

    In the UK it is currently - and shockingly - still perfectly legal to buy 85 species of monkey as easily as one might buy a goldfish. Yet, thankfully, this is about to change, thanks to a new Animal Welfare Bill that is making its way through parliament.

    Though not an outright ban, the new legislation is set to make private ownership of primates much more difficult and highly regulated, by requiring anyone who wishes to sell or own one to have a licence. Once these regulations come into force - likely by 2024 - breaches will be subject to heavy fines.

    That there even is a primate pet trade in the UK may

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