Critique of Simon’s Town Baboon Removal Highlights Biodiversity Value

An opinion piece argues that removing wild baboon populations from human-dominated landscapes undermines ecological wealth and biodiversity, warning against short-term management decisions.

26 Aug, 15:02 — 26 Aug, 15:02

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Removing the Simon’s Town baboons: The wealth we cannot buy back

Our biodiversity is wealth. Our functioning habitat is wealth. The continued presence of wild populations within an increasingly human-dominated landscape is wealth. If that is true, we are choosing to make ourselves poorer.

By Luana Pasanisi

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Critique of Simon’s Town Baboon Removal Highlights Biodiversity Value

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Removing the Simon’s Town baboons: The wealth we cannot buy back

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