The National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), in the US, has filed an expanded petition [LINK] with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) challenging the designation of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) as “endangered”’ or “vulnerable”. The expanded NABR petition follows the recent publication in The American Journal of Primatology, of a review of the scientific information used to determine the conservation status of the long-tailed macaques, concluding that “none of the published literature cited to support the IUCN listing as Endangered presents any data to support the hypothesized decline, nor does the literature establish that the species is at risk of becoming extinct”.
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