Baboon Management Programme – Tender Application

Progress Update and Outcome:

Please read our full statement in the Statement in the Overstrand Herald regarding the Overstrand Municipality Tender process.

About:

The Baboon Management Programme proposed to be involved with activities specifically in the town of Kleinmond, and the Betty’s Bay and Pringle Bay villages which include:

• Hiring and training of local residents to fulfill the role of baboon monitors
• Education and public awareness activities
• Monitoring daily movement of baboons in the villages
• Preventing home incursions and human-baboon conflict
• Reporting on waste management issues to the relevant authorities
• Reporting on the feeding of wildlife to the relevant authorities
• Reporting on incidents of animal abuse to the relevant authorities
• Compiling data and reports for scientific research on the baboon troops in the region
  (For more information on how this strategy was developed please refer to the KVET Background)