The Section ranger at Nwanedzi in the 'Good ol days' had problems of baboons raiding the old extinct private camp of Nwanedzi near his house caused by guests feeding them and leaving food in the Camp house and leaving windows open while on game drives ...behaving like ware Urban idiots in other words ..He shot 10 and hung them up along the Tar road back to Satara from the current picnic spot ...with signs on cardboard around their necks stating 'This is what happens to animals when you feed them' ...Bit drastic but the message was read good and properPJL wrote:Kruger should be moved closer to my house... about the same distance away as Addo. It's just simply not convenient driving 15 hours to get there
yES BUT WE GO ANYWAY EVERY august FOR 3 WEEKS FROM pe
I think the one thing which caused us issues while we were there was the problem with monkeys/baboons at some of the picnic sites. Once in Hwange I was chatting to the owners of a guest lodge which sometimes had problems from the local baboon troop. Whilst not diplomatic, their approach was simple - shoot the troop leader. This sent the entire troop away for the best part of 6 months while they figured out who the new leader would be and gave the lodge some peace and quiet. It might not be the kind of policy which SP wants to be associated with - killing an animal. But the reality is that it is culling, and that does already take place in some parks
You can of course also go to Baboon and monkey free camps like Tsendze ...for how long who knows judging by the idiots next to us who chucked their left overs over the fence and the husband wanted to beat me up for telling his wife off..Had to call the then Mooiplaas ranger in who was twice the Husbands size ..game over ...but yes so unnecessary
