UPDATE 20 JULY 2024 - THREE HEALTHY MALE BABOONS FROM THREE DIFFERENT TROOPS ON THE CAPE PENINSULA WERE KILLED BY THE AUTHORITIES IN JULY 2024.
Three beloved baboons, known to the residents as Creamy, Jody, and Junior, were killed by the authorities in July 2024. Although the Cape Peninsula Baboon Joint Task Team approved their Baboon Strategic Management Plan at the end of 2023, almost none of the plan`s mitigation measures have been implemented. The primary response to human-caused issues continues to be the ineffective, barbaric, and secretive killing of indigenous wildlife.
This tactic of using violence and no other methods, especially, not adopting a holistic framework has caused so much conflict amongst communities and enormous, unnecessary suffering.
We deserve a better, more responsible approach than this deliberate negligence and failure.
Since 2010, authorities have killed nearly eighty Indigenous non-human primates on the Peninsula, predominantly targeting alpha males. The removal of these key individuals is especially disruptive and cruel, as it upsets the entire hierarchy and compromises the social structure and functioning of the troop. Despite being "based on the best available science" these lethal measures have de facto failed to produce any results for nearly two decades.
WE DEMAND EFFECTIVE, ALTERNATIVE, CIVIL TOOLS AND SOLUTIONS AND APPEAL TO THE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT TO IMPOSE AN IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON THE KILLING OF BABOONS IN THE CAPE PENINSULA
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