About Baboon Matters

Baboon Matters has developed the inspiring “Walking with Baboons” project in an effort to create a level of awareness and appreciation for these incredible creatures; perhaps through better understanding will come an acceptance and tolerance that will enable primates to learn to live alongside each other in harmony. The aim is to bridge the gap between the wild world of the Baboons and the civilised world of their human cousins.

The remaining Chacma Baboons on the southern peninsula (close to Cape Town), face a bleak future as continued urbanization reduces wilderness areas, resulting in on-going conflict situations between man and baboon.  Due to the unacceptably high mortality rates it was predicted that within 15 years the baboons would face certain extinction.  At the current mortality rate there will not be a viable baboon population on the peninsula within the next 10 years.

The Baboon Monitor Project was started in 1999 and over the past eight years has considerably reduced the conflicts between primates by keeping baboons out of villages for 85% of days.

The project employs men from the nearby community of Masiphumelele. These men have been working closely with the baboons and have gained a wealth of wildlife experience as well as developing unique relationships with the baboons of the Da Gama and Slangkop troops.

Funding for the Baboon Monitor Project is an on-going concern as pressing social issues dominate the current funding situation in South Africa.

To support this important conservation initiative, 25% of nett proceeds from this walk will be utilized to ensure the continuation of the Baboon Monitor Project.

Show your support for this important conservation initiative and come walking with Baboons!

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