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Article: Call to end the monkey pet trade - call backed by stars.
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- June 8, 2005
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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 June 2005-Animal Defenders International: Call to end the monkey pet trade - call backed by stars(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Animal Defenders International (ADI) is calling on the government to stop monkeys being kept as pets in the UK. A campaign postcard unveiled this week calls on Secretary of State Margaret Beckett MP to ensure that the current review of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, and the Government's proposed Animal Welfare Bill due out in the autumn, are used to halt the trade in pet monkeys and the use of animals in traveling circuses.
ADI hope that the Secretary of State for Environment, ...