{"id":594089,"date":"2026-05-20T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594089\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:37:07","slug":"rochester-woman-hoping-to-keep-monkeys-amid-primate-licence-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594089\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester woman hoping to keep monkeys amid primate licence changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the government department responsible for the legislation, said primates needed zoo-level welfare standards and it was working with local authorities on how to enforce the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But only a small number of licences have been granted, with none issued in Kent, the BBC has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Animal welfare experts warn thousands of monkeys could be put down in a potential &#8220;mass euthanasia&#8221; of primates as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearman&#8217;s garden, in Rochester, is never quiet. The marmosets share the garden with the other family pets: a rabbit, two tortoises and a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The marmosets are among the 3,000 to 5,000 primates the government estimates are kept privately across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the government department responsible for the legislation, said primates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594089","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=594089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}