Cape Town - The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (JTT) says that if all goes as planned, the draft Baboon Strategic Management Plan will be finalised by the end of September. The JTT, ...

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On 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 ...

In 2025, I submitted a formal complaint to the Public Protector (reference CMS 52724/2025) alleging possible maladministration in the management of Cape Peninsula’s chacma baboons. I declare upfront ...

Instead, I turned and was shocked to see Split Lip, the alpha male baboon from the troop that was frequenting Misty Cliffs, a small beachside town on South Africa's far southern Atlantic coast, just ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Baboons seeking snacks are breaking into tourists’ cars in South Africa and authorities are threatening to fine visitors who give them food. Cape Town’s chacma baboons are a ...

(CNN) — On the outskirts of Cape Town an unusual resident can often be found rummaging through rubbish bins and around back yards. The chacma baboon, native to southern Africa, has become quite ...

Johannesburg — It was a normal holiday morning. My family was getting up for the day and my husband had just left for a meeting. I was holding one of my children in my arms and another by the hand ...

The actions in the R27-million plan for the Cape Peninsula's chacma baboons are irreversible. The urgent question is whether the decision-making process that led to these actions was transparent, ...