As human development encroaches on their habitat in Simon's Town, a growing troop of chacma baboons is causing increasing trouble in Cape Town. Tourists may find them charming, but locals are less impressed by their antics, which include raiding gardens, trash bins, and even homes.
As baboons become bolder, Cape Town battles for solutionsOn a sunny afternoon in Cape Town ’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and swinging on the gutters.Enchanted tourists stop to photograph the troop crossing the road. Locals are less impressed: it’s a daily scene in the charming village nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Table Mountain National Park.
A baboon on the edge of a wild and an urban area is “the most difficult animal in the world to manage”, O’Riain said. Tensions between baboons and humans have never been higher, according to an ecologist © RODGER BOSCH / AFP It will however remain in place through December – a particularly busy month for tourists – but with fewer rangers, it said.
“We don’t need to be in competition with our natural resources: there can be ways that we can manage our lifestyles to minimise the negative impacts,” she said.For O’Riain, the only viable solution to the baboon battle is to erect fencing in certain areas that is made up of electric wiring and underground mesh to prevent the animals from digging underneath.
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