Advocating Wild has today joined a group of leading expert organisations, intending to send a strongly supported letter to the Minister of Environment and Infrastructure of Sint Maarten, a Dutch Territory in the Caribbean.
Fundamentally flawed plans to exterminate least 450 of the free-living troop of vervet monkeys have reportedly been approved, with Authorities intending to fund the Nature Foundation of St Maarten to capture and euthanise the animals over the next three years.
The Born free Foundation USA have drafted an appeal to Minister Egbert Doran to reconsider the plans and instead "adopt a sterilization program, which will provide a permanent, yet humane, solution for the monkey population."
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Contact Minister Doran: