Live Podcast Event: 1000 Monkeys
When: 11 April 2023 | 1-2pm ET
1,000 long-tailed macaques were stolen from the wild in Cambodia and illegally imported to Charles River Laboratories in Texas in 2022. Because they were wild caught and thus illegal, they were denied clearance and now US Fish and Wildlife is deciding whether to kill them, send them back (to end up in labs elsewhere), or do the right thing and send them to Born Free’s Primate Sanctuary.
Please join Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel and Elizabeth Novogratz in conversation about the fate of these macaques and what could be the beginning of the end of using primates for medical research.
Meet the Speaker
Primate scientist Lisa Jones-Engel, Ph.D., a Fulbright scholar alumna, has studied the human-primate interface for 40 years. Her scientific career has spanned primate natural habitats, primate biomedical laboratories, institutional animal use committees and the undergraduate classroom. She has published nearly 100 peer reviewed articles, and been awarded more than $4M in research funding. Dr. Jones-Engel serves as senior science adviser on primate experimentation with PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department.
“The ill-conceived era of relying on stolen, diseased, distressed monkeys to cure human disease has never worked and is coming to an end, hopefully in time for these species to recover in their natural habitats,”
- Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA’s primate expert.