A Kenya Airways plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on February 19, 2021. KQ is ending a contract under which it shipped monkeys from Mauritius to the United States.
National carrier Kenya Airways has said it will end a contract under which it shipped monkeys from Mauritius to the United States for laboratory experiments.
KQ’s announcement came after a truck transporting the long-tailed macaque monkeys bred on a farm in Mauritius crashed last week in Danville, Pennsylvania, attracting criticism from animal rights activists in the US.
