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Article: 'Inevitable' that baboons will be culled if authorities decide not to move primates.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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BYLINE: MELANIE GOSLING
IT is "inevitable" that baboons on the Cape Peninsula will have to be culled if the authorities decide on a policy of not moving any of the growing number of these primates to other areas.
And the City of Cape Town may impose title deed restrictions on properties on the urban edge to force residents to make their properties less attractive to baboons,
This emerged at the "baboon summit" yesterday where the City of Cape Town, CapeNature, SANParks, researchers and NGOs met to thrash out a baboon management strategy in the face of increasing conflict between humans and baboons as the animals' numbers increase and their ...