VICTORY! ACA International Bows Out of the Monkey-Killing Business
Update (July 28, 2026): VICTORY! In yet another significant win for animals, ACA International has exited the monkey-shipping business! The U.S.-based charter brokerage company had been high on PETA’s radar for aiding the transport of monkeys to their deaths in U.S. laboratories. But the company has canceled its U.S. Department of Agriculture registration and is no longer in that sordid business, according to a June 10, 2026, inspection report.
Please take a minute to celebrate this victory and then TAKE ACTION to urge your representative in Congress to support the PRIMATE Act, which would stop all imports of monkeys used for experimentation.
And anyone anywhere can urge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to shut down the monkey-abduction pipeline.
Update (Oct. 16, 2025): ACA International, a U.S.-based charter brokerage company on PETA’s radar for aiding the transport of monkeys to their deaths in U.S. laboratories, was slapped with a federal citation after forcing 500 monkeys into crates for a terrifying, 41-hour flight across half the world. Some monkeys were inaccessible to flight crews, and all went without adequate water, as required.
ACA failed to give the monkeys water every 12 hours as required on the almost 2-day journey from Mauritius to Miami, Florida. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued ACA the citation for the critical violation.
On this same flight, SmartLynx, a commercial carrier still transporting monkeys for painful and deadly laboratory experiments, was also cited for improperly stacking crates of terrified monkeys, making numerous animals inaccessible to flight crews.
Original post:
It’s no secret that Volga-Dnepr Airlines has been involved in transporting monkeys from Cambodia and China to laboratories in the U.S., where they will be tormented in cruel and archaic experiments.
When we heard reports that US-based ACA International LLC, a charter brokerage company, might be helping to arrange flights carrying shipments of monkeys for experimenters, we contacted it immediately—and repeatedly—to ask that it confirm the reports. It refuses to respond.
But ACA International LLC can’t keep its involvement a secret anymore! A newly released report from the U.S. Department of Transportation lists it as the “charterer” for a shipment of monkeys that Volga-Dnepr was approved to fly from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to Houston.
Nearly every major airline in the world refuses to transport these sensitive beings to laboratories, where they’re routinely mutilated, poisoned, deprived of food and water, forcibly immobilized in restraint devices, infected with painful and deadly diseases, psychologically tormented, and killed.
Please tell ACA International LLC to consider this: Monkeys destined for laboratories are crammed into cramped crates in cargo holds for as long as 30 hours—only to be imprisoned and tormented in small cages at a laboratory. Monkeys are extremely social animals who typically sleep, eat, and live in groups. They don’t exist to spend their lives isolated from the ones they love and are not ours to abuse in any other way.
