Pete Oxford has responded to an opinion piece by Phil Richardson, owner of Human Wildlife Solutions, a company that holds the contract to manage baboons in the Overberg. Oxford asks why HWS has long criticised an ‘anthropomorphic’ consideration to ...
More problems than solutions: Being paid to kill Western Cape baboons is no way to manage wildlifeMore problems than solutions: Being paid to kill Western Cape baboons is no way to manage wildlife by Pete Oxford, Daily Maverick October 6, 2021 Pete Oxford is a qualified zoologist, professional naturalist, photographer, writer and conservationist. He has spent more than three decades in intimate association with wildlife in some of the wildest places on earth.
This article first appeared on Daily Maverick and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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