SEREMBAN: The High Court here has dismissed an application by the Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) to strike out a suit from a resident and a non-governmental organisation over the alleged culling of dusky leaf monkeys in Port Dickson.
Rajesh Nagarajan, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, said High Court Judge Azizul Azmi Adnan also fixed Jan 8 to 11, 2024, to hear the case."The next case management date was also fixed for Feb 7 next year," he said when contacted.
Rajesh, who is also founder of Lawyers for Animal Rights, said the plaintiffs’ main contention is that Perhilitan's role was to protect wildlife and that they should not have culled the endangered animals. In their suit filed on July 21 last year, the plaintiffs claimed more than 20 adult and baby dusky leaf monkeys were shot dead during an operation conducted by the department around 10am on May 19.In their suit, they also claimed that it was common knowledge that the dusky leaf monkeys were extremely shy primates and that the defendants had wrongly concluded that they could attack humans.
By culling the"totally protected wildlife", the defendants had violated Section 86 of the Wildlife Conservation Act 2010 which states that it is an offence to wilfully cause any unnecessary suffering, pain or discomfort to any wildlife.The plaintiffs stated the defendants had no justification to cull the animals as they did not pose any immediate threat to any one.
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