The Chinese Embassy in Colombo has shown ignorance regarding the export of 100,000 monkeys.
China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration, which oversees the export and import of wild animals and plants, has not received any request from a Chinese company to import monkeys from Sri Lanka, the Chinese embassy said in a statement.
Gonadasa Samarasinghe, a senior official at Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Agriculture, said that a private Chinese company had requested his ministry to import monkeys.
He said that we will not send one lakh monkeys at once, but we will export the monkeys from those areas where the monkeys are damaging the crops.
The red and brown monkey is one of the oldest species remaining only in Sri Lanka, it has been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The Sri Lankan minister said that China needs these monkeys to keep in its zoos.
It should be noted that Sri Lanka has banned the export of most live animals, but this sale is being done at a time when the country is going through its worst economic crisis.
Sri Lankan authorities estimate the monkey population in the country at 20 to 3 million.
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