This Is About Enforcement Now.

The exploitation, abuse, and torture of monkeys on social media is not a grey area. Much of the content described in this petition already violates platform policies and, when viewed from within the UK, falls under the UK Online Safety Act’s animal cruelty provisions. This means removal is not optional — it is a legal obligation.

Despite this, vast amounts of monkey abuse and Monkey Hate content remain accessible on Social Media Platforms. This includes videos involving illegal trafficking, deliberate torture, forced humanisation, staged rescues, and prolonged suffering of baby and juvenile monkeys.

This petition exists to demonstrate scale, visibility, and persistence. Every signature helps show that this content is not isolated and not historical,  — it is ongoing and viewable now.

Thousands of videos showing monkeys being exploited, abused, and tortured for online entertainment are still accessible on social media.

Much of this content involves illegally trafficked monkeys and remains viewable from within the UK despite existing laws.

This petition calls on social media platforms to remove monkey abuse and Monkey Hate content and comply with animal welfare and online safety laws.

The UK’s online animal cruelty laws came into effect on 17 March 2025, meaning social media platforms are now required to remove monkey cruelty content.

The humanisation of monkeys—a wild animal—is itself a form of cruelty. Monkeys are subjected to coercive abuse and, in many cases, torture in order to force them to perform in videos that are viewed for entertainment and mistakenly perceived as “cute.”

Young people are being conditioned to believe that the monkey content they see on television and on Social Media “Pet Monkey” channels is normal and harmless—such as monkeys dressed as children, walking upright, pushing shopping trolleys, or riding toy bikes or cars. Children cannot be fully informed about the reality behind this content, and therefore, as adults and parents, we have a responsibility to protect them from becoming desensitised to animal humanisation, cruelty and abuse.

This petition exists because vast amounts of monkey abuse, exploitation, and torture content remain accessible on social media platforms despite clear laws and platform rules prohibiting it. Much of this content involves baby and juvenile monkeys subjected to deliberate cruelty, forced humanisation, and prolonged suffering for online entertainment and profit.

Many viewers are unaware of what happens to these animals off-camera or during the training that forces them to perform. This petition calls for the removal of this content, raises awareness of the reality behind it, and urges platforms to comply with their legal obligations.

According to a 2020 report by World Animal Protection, the online exploitation of wildlife—including on Facebook, Telegram, and YouTube—has risen significantly. Monkeys are among the most frequently targeted animals, commonly featured on “pet monkey” channels and in “Monkey Hate” community groups where they are exploited for entertainment and profit.

Although Facebook’s Community Standards prohibit animal exploitation, these policies are failing to protect monkeys from being displayed, mishandled, abused, or tortured online. Despite clear evidence of cruelty, these channels and their owners continue to operate unchecked.

World Animal Protection reports that thousands of primates are illegally traded each year—a market fuelled in part by social-media demand. This not only harms individual animals but also contributes to species decline.

For more than three years, Facebook and Telegram have hosted publicly accessible videos, images, channels, and groups showing extreme monkey abuse—including physical torture, sexual abuse, coprophilia, and snuff content. Some Monkey Hate groups have tens of thousands of members, with certain individuals running multiple channels across platforms.

Telegram hosts numerous closed but easily accessible groups where baby, juvenile, and adult monkeys are cruelly humanised, abused, and tortured. Technical glitches have even exposed their content publicly. Videos are widely copied and shared, spreading the harm even further.

YouTube has previously hosted extensive Monkey Hate and torture content, with some viewers even paying channel owners to carry out and film horrific torture scenarios for upload. The platform still hosts numerous channels showing baby and juvenile macaque monkeys being forced to walk bipedally and used for exploitative entertainment. Many videos feature monkeys dressed in human clothes, pushing shopping trolleys, riding in toy cars, and being made to sit and eat unhealthy human foods such as sweets—all for the amusement of viewers. People of all ages, including very young children, watch this content without realising the cruelty behind it or the short, traumatic lives these monkeys endure before they are discarded once they are no longer small or cute enough to attract views, reactions, and comments.

The content on Telegram and numerous other platforms includes prolonged torture sessions—often ending in death—staged “rescues,” fake outrage videos, and forced training in which monkeys are often restrained or hung until they learn to stand or walk bipedally.

Newborn monkeys, some still bearing their umbilical cords, are dressed and fed like human infants, frequently given watered-down milk to prevent growth, and in many cases—between 2022 and 2025—deliberately starved to death for social-media entertainment.

These videos are produced to elicit sympathy, drive engagement, increase channel popularity, and generate monetary profit.

This content remains available worldwide despite animal-cruelty laws such as the UK Online Safety Act.

Monkeys—many belonging to protected species—are sentient beings. They are often victims of illegal trafficking, torn from their drugged or dead mothers’ bodies and forced into short lives of trauma and suffering. Some channel owners even involve their own children, perpetuating a dangerous cycle of abuse.

Worse still, advocates who report this content are sometimes penalised, while abusive accounts remain active and profitable. This is unacceptable. Social-media companies must not allow the normalisation of animal torture, exploitation, or violence.

We call on Facebook, Telegram, YouTube, and all other social-media platforms to:

✔ Remove all “pet monkey,” “Monkey Hate,” and other exploitative content, videos, groups, and channels. Also adverts of any kind that include humanised monkeys.
✔ Enforce existing laws and their own animal-cruelty policies.
✔ Permanently ban individuals who after 17th March 2025 continue to create, promote, distribute, or participate in any form of animal-abuse content, including those using illegally trafficked monkeys—most often protected species.
✔ Prevent their platforms from being used to traffic or exploit primates.

These voiceless animals deserve dignity and protection.

It is time to end their suffering and hold platforms accountable.

Please sign this petition and be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.

If you have seen this content on Facebook, Telegram, or other platforms, especially from within the UK, please consider leaving a brief comment stating when you saw it. This strengthens the case for enforcement and accountability.

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