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Animal advocacy groups call for probe after monkeys taken from KZN rescue centre are euthanised
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DURBAN - The Wildlife Animal Protection Forum South Africa has penned an open letter to the National Council of SPCAs after 59 monkeys, removed from the Umsizi Umkomaas Vervet Monkey Rescue Centre last month, were euthanised.
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife’s, Musa Mntambo said 100 monkeys were taken from the facility. They were illegally kept at the Umsizi Umkomaas Vervet Monkey Rescue Centre and the owner was charged with breaking two sections of Nature Conservation Ordinance 15 of 1974, he said.
Mntambo said the owner was given 21 days notice and by February 4 had to remove the monkeys. He added she was issued a R1 500 fine.