Saving Cape Town’s baboons requires human intervention and action.
The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team is proposing the culling of over 120 baboons.
It claims the baboons are moving into splinter troops down south.
But Green Group Simons Town’s Carol Knox says the primates breaking into splinter troops does NOT mean they are broken families.
She says this split is a healthy adaptation when troops become too large or resources become scarce….
“The real problem is our failure to take basic responsibility. These baboons venture into neighbourhoods because we’ve made it ridiculously easy. For years the task team has failed to provide baboon-proof bins and they still haven’t provided them.
We’re essentially setting up feeding stations throughout the baboon’s territory and then act surprised, angry and even furious when they show up for lunch or dinner.”
