{"id":416513,"date":"2026-02-09T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:35:07","slug":"sanctuary-shocked-at-lack-of-applications-need-under-primate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416513\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary shocked at lack of applications need under primate law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hanson said she wanted a ban on keeping primates as pets because of the welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;We see from our rescues, across the range of species in the UK primate pet trade, that they will all suffer from physical, as well as psychological illnesses &#8230; diabetes, heart conditions, arthritis, chronic pain and abnormal behaviours,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Environment, Food  and Rural Affairs said: &#8220;Primates are highly intelligent and complex animals, and new laws mean that where they are kept by private keepers they must be provided with zoo-level welfare standards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We urge private keepers to make sure they are licensed and complying with these high welfare standards and we are working with local authorities on how to enforce the new licensing scheme.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hanson said she wanted a ban on keeping primates as pets because of the welfare issues. &#8220;We see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-416513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}