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In Depth: After Animal Traffickers Busted, Court Considers What to Do With All the Monkeys

Ma Mingze, Zhou Tailai and Guo Xin
2025年04月18日 15:14
A ruling that led to the return of 32 macaques to the wild offers a blueprint for a fairer and more humane way of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of animals seized in China each year
After about two months of training, 30 macaques involved in the trafficking case were released in Liziping National Nature Reserve, Shimian County, Sichuan Province in July 2023. Photo: Chengdu Railway Transport Intermediate Court

What’s the best way to deal with 32 wild monkeys seized in an animal trafficking case?

It’s not the kind of question that judges in China have spent much time considering. Still, it’s one that Xu Xiaoshuang, a judge on the Chengdu Railway Transportation Intermediate Court, contemplated in the run-up to an August 2022 ruling that sentenced 13 people to prison for their roles in trafficking 158 macaques.

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