Releases

We are currently searching for suitable release sites for our troops.

Until recently, baboons were classifed as vermin in South Africa and were routinely shot and poisoned by farmers. Although the law has now been altered and baboons are supposedly protected in many of the provinces, the mind set of  the past has been very difficult to change.

An increasing human population and agricultural encroachment onto the baboons’ habitat, results in increasing conflict between man and baboon. This is escalated by the baboons intelligence which makes control measures against crop raiding often frustrating and un-workable.

As a result of this frustration, most of CARE’s inhabitants arrive at the centre as tiny orphans when their mothers have been shot or killed.  They are lost little souls, often beaten, abused and traumatised by humans. Others arrive as the result of accidents such as road kill or electrocution.

CARE takes these orphans, and with time and patience forms cohesive troops. By the age of 7 years old these troops are able to be released in safe places such as game farms and private reserves.