http://www.babooninterestgroup.org.za/2024/11/19/big-pringle-bay-baboon-facts/

BIG BABOON FACTS FOR PRINGLE BAY 

In terms of the current baboon management plan in Pringle Bay, the minutes from the  Overstrand Municipal Council Meeting held on the 24th April 2023 item 6.2:
 
“When the Pringle Bay troop was successfully removed out of Pringle Bay town in 2021, the troops in Hangklip, respectively named Silversands and Hangklip, moved into Pringle Bay town and started to cause disruption in the urban area.  The contract with HWS had to be revised to include the additional two troops in Hangklip area in order to keep these troops out of the town of Pringle Bay.  A new deviation needed to be drawn up for the additional two troops added to the contract.”
 
This statement by the Overstrand Municipality provides further proof that the decision to remove the Pringle Bay troop did not offer a sustainable solution,  instead this decision was actually counter-productive.
 
Based on the aforementioned, well-known historical fact, about baboon behaviour in Pringle Bay, BIG questions the validity of the objectives of the current 2024 Overstrand Municipality Adaptive Baboon Management Plan. 

This current strategy includes moving the Pringle Bay baboons out of their natural 
foraging range. 

BIG questions why, and at what cost, the Overstrand Municipality Environmental 
Department is repeating their own very costly mistakes.

http://www.babooninterestgroup.org.za/2024/11/19/big-pringle-bay-baboon-facts/