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The Cartographers of Stone and Sea: A Call Across the Peninsula's Wound
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Ongoing, First published Jun 03
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Backstory: The Cape Peninsula Civil Conservation (CPCC) has strongly criticised the planned removal - and possible killing - of up to 120 baboons from the Cape Peninsula, calling it "deeply shocking."

The CPCC expressed concern about ethical, social, and ecological consequences.

This follows a recent announcement by the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT), which includes SANParks, CapeNature and the City of Cape Town, that five splinter baboon troops could be removed as part of their updated management plan, ("Cape Peninsula task team reveals innovative strategies for baboon management," Echo).

These are not innovative strategies, this will entail the killing of about 120 baboons.

Here is my poem about this and a call to action to oppose this.

Cover image of baboons by Greg Williams a local resident in the area.
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Series

The Peninsula Elegies: Voices from the Margins

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  • Shortys2025 | When Waters Remember cover
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  • Shortys2025 | Between Two Oceans cover
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  • Shortys2025 | Baboons Witness cover
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  • The Breathing Seas: A Grief Cartography cover
    1 part
  • The Archeology of Extermination: A Lament for the 121 cover
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