The baboons are doomed, and welfare groups just missed the last chance to save them

Source: Daily Maverick · 2026-11-15T09:43:13.000Z · World

We have just seen the last opportunity for welfare organisations to gain a meaningful seat at the table and help decide how to keep baboons on the Cape Peninsula. Their donors had left money to save wild animals in exactly this kind of situation. Funding fences could have kept three troops, 88 animals, wild. Demonstrating that fences work could have helped save thousands more.

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