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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Amid illegal wildlife crackdown, police seize 13th monkey
Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
An illegally imported monkey found tied to a tree in Mazkeret Batya on March 19, 2025 (Israel Police)
The 13th illegally imported monkey is located by police, this time tied to a tree in an open area in Mazkeret Batya, in central Israel.
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority, which receives the animal, confirms it is a guenon monkey. These are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
The monkey was hurt and transferred to a shelter for treatment.
Over recent days, police have rescued 12 illegally held monkeys and four lion cubs, mostly from Bedouin towns in the Negev. They also confiscated several wild animals from a moshav in central Israel, among them a crocodile, an anaconda, poisonous frogs and several other lizards of various types, all foreign, exotic species.
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