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chacma baboons

Horrific cruelty – legal trade and lack of protection are decimating South Africa’s primates

Our Burning Planet

Horrific cruelty – legal trade and lack of protection are decimating South Africa’s primates

By Don Pinnock

How Simon's Town is trying to solve the baboon-human dilemma

South Africa

How Simon's Town is trying to solve the baboon-human dilemma

By Peter Willis

Guidelines, not residents’ wishes, are followed when managing baboons in Cape Town’s urban areas

South Africa

Guidelines, not residents’ wishes, are followed when managing baboons in Cape Town’s urban areas

By Felicity Purchase