{"id":205710,"date":"2026-01-19T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205710"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:57:10","slug":"cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205710","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town\u2019s new plan for baboons: Fence, capture and possibly euthanize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people and baboons, which regularly enter urban areas in search of food. The plan, which includes euthanasia of some baboons, has drawn criticism from animal welfare groups. The plan says the population of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/12\/cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205710-cape-towns-new-plan-for-baboons-fence-capture-and-possibly-euthanize-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}