PETALING JAYA: An NGO championing animal rights has asked the wildlife protection and national parks department (Perhilitan) to act against its officers who allegedly culled wild monkeys at Batu Caves recently.
Rajesh Nagarajan, founder of the Lawyers for Animal Rights (LFAR) group, said he was taken aback by a series of videos that went viral on Facebook recently showing Perhilitan officers being reprimanded by a resident for allegedly killing the monkeys.
The lawyer said the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 listed long-tailed macaques as a protected species, adding that it was illegal to kill any protected animal.
“We demand that Perhilitan take immediate action against these unknown officials for the brutal murder of these monkeys,” he said in a statement today.
The video, which was uploaded yesterday on a Facebook page titled “Stop abuse to baby monkeys”, shows two men who claimed to be from Selangor Perhilitan loading carcasses of dead monkeys onto a pickup truck.
The person recording the video questioned one of the officers for bringing a weapon into a housing area.
The video’s caption said the monkeys posed no threat to the residents of the neighbourhood.
The post said each morning “these cute little monkeys will come near and play, gently interacting with us” and that one of the monkeys would carry her baby while looking for food.
“But lately, these monkeys went missing, only (for us) to find out that Perhilitan had set up a cage to trap them and shoot them illegally even though they were not harmful or violent.”
FMT has reached out to Perhilitan for comment. - FMT
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