How Cape Town is learning to live with baboons
Baboons have made themselves at home in the suburbs of Cape Town, but keeping the peace with their human neighbors is proving a challenge.
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Baboons have made themselves at home in the suburbs of Cape Town, but keeping the peace with their human neighbors is proving a challenge.
In late September, a juvenile baboon was shot and killed by a Simon’s Town resident. The incident has deepened faultlines in the community.
The task team, which consists of representatives from SANParks, CapeNature, and the City of Cape Town, has assessed comments received from residents and interested and affected parties during a participation period earlier this year.
Barbara Friedman reports on baboons in Constantia who are at risk of being abandoned because of a lack of funding from the City.
Tensions over the management of baboons in one of Cape Town's poshest suburbs have seen a local magistrate's court stepping in to resolve a dispute between a resident and an activist.