30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 β’ 911 Ratings
ποΈ 29 October 2025
β±οΈ 3 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're doing something a little different.
Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something we've been working on for the past year β our new short documentary, 30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard.
It tells the unbelievable true story of how a small town in Georgia became ground zero for a proposed facility that would have housed 30,000 monkeys for laboratory testing β and how a group of everyday people stood up, fought back, and changed the course of their town's future.
The film is a story about courage, community, and what happens when people refuse to stay silent.
30,000 Monkeys in Our Backyard premieres November 1st on YouTube β and you can watch it, share it, and take action at speciesunite.com/30000monkeys
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| 0:00.0 | Species. |
| 0:01.0 | Species. |
| 0:09.0 | Unite. |
| 0:10.0 | This week, we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 0:16.0 | Instead of a conversation, we're sharing something that we've been working on for the past year, |
| 0:28.6 | our new documentary, 30,000 monkeys in our backyard. It tells the unbelievable true story of how a small town in Georgia became ground zero for a proposed facility that would have housed |
| 0:34.2 | 30,000 monkeys for laboratory testing, |
| 0:38.2 | and how a group of everyday people stood up, fought back, |
| 0:42.7 | and changed the course of their town's future. |
| 0:45.6 | The film is a story about courage, about community, |
| 0:48.9 | and about what happens when people refuse to stay silent. |
| 0:53.2 | 30,000 monkeys in our backyard |
| 0:55.4 | premieres November 1st on YouTube, |
| 0:58.2 | and you can watch it, share it, and take action |
| 1:01.0 | at Speciesunite.com slash 30,000 monkeys. |
| 1:06.3 | Here's the trailer. |
| 1:08.2 | Soon, a small Georgia city could have twice as many monkeys as people. |
| 1:12.6 | If a massive breeding facility housing 30,000 long-tailed macaques comes to town. |
| 1:18.6 | When we really understood what this company was planning on doing here, we got fired up. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, what we started doing was investigating. |
| 1:26.6 | There was a secret meeting that did not properly advertise to the people. |
| 1:29.3 | We took those actions contrary to the law. |
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