Captive Primate Safety Act
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captive-primate-safety-act-187-15740879
title:
Captive Primate Safety Act
text:
The Captive Primate Safety Act is proposed United States legislation that modifies the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to treat nonhuman primates as prohibited wildlife species, allowing exemptions for zoos and research facilities. The bill would eliminate the use of primates in the domestic pet trade at a federal level. A December 2023 review found that the "U.S. ranked third out of 171 countries in the ease of purchasing a pet primate online, behind Indonesia and Vietnam." The bill, if passed, wo
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Proposed US Federal legislation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Primate_Safety_Act
date created:
2009-02-23T21:39:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:17:42Z
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