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(Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday. The pair poached dozens of rare Javan langurs, also known as silver-leaf monkeys, from Baluran National Park in the east of Java island, according to a statement released by Indonesia-based animal protection group ProFauna.

<p>In the 1960s, roughly 2,500 Cat Ba Langurs lived on the island that gives the monkeys their name.</p> <p>CAT BA ISLAND, Vietnam - Residents of this spectacular-but-impoverished island don't want to be known as the people who killed off one of the world's rarest monkeys. They also don't want to strangle their suddenly booming tourist economy.</p>