IPS Policy Statements and Guidelines
Committees
- IPS ad hoc committee on making capture safer
Direct contact with wild primates can further conservation and research goals and is sometimes needed to remove snares or for medical intervention. The safety and long-term wellbeing of primates that are captured and released back into their natural habitats is a concern for field primatologists. Following a round-table at IPS Chicago 2016, the International Primatological Society created an ad hoc committee to continue to improve methods for the capture and release of primates. The membership of the committee represents expertise in capturing a wide range of taxa and the use of trapping, darting, and hand capture as well as alternatives to capture.
More information on the committee and its goals is available here:
IPS ad hoc committee on making capture safer
If you’re involved in capturing primates, and have a protocol to share, would like to be involved, or would like to know more, please contact the chair. If you capture and release primates, please consider reporting your captures to us. The committee welcomes new members.
Policy Statements
- Protection of Primate Health in the Wild
- Improving Primate Conservation through Community Involvement
- Opposition to the Use of Nonhuman Primates in the Media
- Private Ownership of Nonhuman Primates
- Trade in Captured Primates
- Protection of Primate Health in the Wild
- Improving Primate Conservation through Community Involvement
- Opposition to the Use of Nonhuman Primates in the Media
- Private Ownership of Nonhuman Primates
- Trade in Captured PrimatesTrade in Captured Primates
Guidelines
- The Nagoya Protocol: how does it affect research on primates?
- Guidelines for Conservation through Community Involvement
- IPS Guidelines for submitting a Bid for Conferences
- Code of Best Practices for Field Primatology
- Code of Best Practices for Field Primatology – Código de Recomendaciones 2015
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition (French Translation)
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition (Spanish Translation)
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition (Japanese Translation)
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition (Chinese Translation)
- IPS International Guidelines for the Acquisition, Care, and Breeding of Nonhuman Primates Second Edition (Thai translation)