In January 2025, the CITES secretariat recommended that all trade in Cambodian long-tailed macaques be suspended until Cambodian authorities outline measures implemented to prevent the laundering of wild monkeys through breeding facilities, noting that the volume of births reported in five of the country’s six registered monkey-breeding facilities are “disproportionately high relative to what is considered biologically possible.” The rate was listed as three offspring every two years per female, while a typical birth rate for the species would see females give birth to a single infant every year or two. As such, the animal committee wrote that the birth rate among Cambodia’s breeding facilities suggests “that some regular supply of wild specimens was necessary (at least in the past) to maintain a high reproductive output at least in some facilities”.