Across the internet, criminals are filming and selling extreme abuse of baby monkeys. These videos don’t spread by accident. They are uploaded, shared, and monetised through online platforms that too often respond with quiet takedowns and nothing more. That approach is failing animals.
When a video is deleted without preserving evidence or sharing information, the people responsible are not identified, buyers and sellers remain anonymous, and new accounts appear. And more baby monkeys are abused for profit.
We have seen this pattern repeat again and again. Takedowns alone hide the crime. They do not stop it.
What actually disrupts this trade is a combined approach of immediate removal of abusive content, preservation of evidence before deletion, sharing account data, upload histories, and transaction details, along with cooperation with law enforcement and animal welfare organisations. Without this, enforcement is always one step behind and the abuse continues.
Sign now to demand real action from online platforms, not surface-level fixes.
