Bon voyage – Phuket prepares to move monkeys to islands

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Bon voyage – Phuket prepares to move monkeys to islands

In these area monkeys are being mischievous with tourists

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

Phuket’s Governor Norraphat said “Long-tailed macaque and Southern pig-tailed macaque are disturbing local residents and tourists. We are planning to move monkeys to islands that have been provided as a long-term solution. A public hearing will be held this month to discuss all the options.”

 

“Officials have surveyed and found that there are seven main areas that have monkey problems including Yamu Paklok, King Kaew Soi 9 and Tha Chin Rassada. In these three area monkeys are damaging local residents’ property. Other areas are in Bang Rong Paklok, Khao To Sae (Monkey Hill) and Khao Rang. 

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/bon-voyage-phuket-prepares-to-move-monkeys-to-islands

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2018-05-15

 

 

[Radar501]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Long-tailed macaque and Southern pig-tailed macaque are disturbing local residents and tourists". 

Local residents and tourists are disturbing Long-tailed macaque and Southern pig-tailed macaque.

Edited May 15, 2018 by Radar501

[lonewolf99]

Monkeys are not the problem....Humans are the problem.

[webfact]

Phuket to hold public hearings on plan to isolate monkeys

By The Nation

 

The Phuket provincial administration will hold five public hearings on its plan to round up pig-tailed macaques and crab-eating macaques and isolate them on a small island.

 

Phuket governor Naraphat Plodthong said the hearings would be held on May 22, May 24, May 25, May 27 and May 28 from 9am to 12pm.

 

The governor said the provincial administration had surveyed the area and found seven spots that were overcrowded with monkeys, and this was affecting local people and tourists.

 

Five of the spots are in Tambon Talad Yai in Muang district, at Khao Rung mountain, Khao Toh mountain, mangrove forests on Soi Thachin, and mangrove forests on Soi King Kaew 9 and Koh Sireh. The two other spots are at mangrove forests in Ban Bang Rong and Ban Yamu villages in Tambon Pa Klok in Thalang district.

 

Pongchart Chuahom, chief of the Khao Phra Thew Nature and Wildlife Study Centre in Thalang, said his centre would start sterilising the monkeys in June.

 

He said the procedures would be performed in the meeting room of the Muang Phuket Municipality.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30345509

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-16

[weegee]

Good Idea....Fresh food for the refugees passing through to where ever.....They then wont even have to step foot in Thailand..

[Rimmer]

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[MyFriend You]

On 5/15/2018 at 10:57 AM, lonewolf99 said:

Monkeys are not the problem....Humans are the problem.

Obviously you haven't had one of them big bastards jump on your back and try to rip your backpack open have you???    Scared the crap out of me, haven't been back to that area since.

Edited May 16, 2018 by TunnelRat69

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Plan to ease monkey overpopulation with colonies on Phuket islets

By The Nation

 

 

FIVE UNINHABITED small islands in Phuket province have been chosen as possible monkey colonies.

 

Public hearings for the plan to release wild monkeys from various provinces that are overcrowded with monkeys to these small islands will be held later this month. 

 

“Surveys show there are five islets in Phuket that should be able to serve as monkey colonies. These islets have neither human inhabitants nor predatory animals. But they have food and water sources,” Pol General Pongsapat Pongcharoen, chairman of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA)’s subcommittee on animal welfare |protection mechanism follow-up, said yesterday. 

 

 

The plan to develop monkey colonies has emerged because of the serious overcrowding of macaques in 12 provinces.

According to Pongsapat, monkeys have caused problems to people in as many 53 provinces across Thailand. Twelve provinces with a “serious situation” are Lop Buri, Krabi, Chon Buri, Trang, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Phetchaburi, Phuket, Mukdahan, Satun, Saraburi, Amnat Charoen, and the Bang Khun Thien district in Bangkok. 

 

Thai authorities have suggested 100,000 monkeys may be rounded up and isolated on 191 remote islands.

 

 

Pongsapat cited Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) findings that said conflicts between humans and monkeys stemmed from the threat to the natural habitat of monkeys from the building of residences. 

 

He said this encroachment on the animals’ land, or surroundings overlapping monkey habitats, had led to a change in the ecosystem and caused food shortages. As a result, the monkeys raided people’s homes to ransack for food and even attacked people. 

 

He said the idea of creating a “monkey colony” on islands to support the overspill, especially those with aggressive behaviour against humans, would soon materialise. He said the monkeys would be sterilised first.

 

While agreeing that the monkey overcrowding issue must be managed appropriately, marine biologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat said he did not support solutions that could create other problems for the national parks’ island ecosystem. 

 

Some NLA members had discussed the issue with him and assured him that the “monkey island” solution wouldn’t include islands within national parks, he said.

 

According to DNP deputy director-general Pinsak Suraswadi, a survey of 7,000 people across the country found that the most irritating animals for them were monkeys/macaques, who were reportedly overcrowding 183 sites in 53 provinces, including the 12 provinces in a “critical situation”. 

 

Eleven other provinces, including Ratchaburi, Sa Kaew, Chai Nat and Udon Thani, faced a moderate situation while the problem was mild in 30 other provinces. 

 

Pinsak said the DNP had been implementing monkey-population control measures, including sterilisation, but they had not been able to stem the fast-growing monkey population. He said the problematic 100,000 monkeys included 34,608 macaques. 

 

The second and third most irritating animals were wild elephants at 166 sites and wild boars at 82 sites, he said, quoting from the survey.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30345560

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-17

 

[Stargeezr]

Good plan!  Let the monkeys be the jungle kings on thoses islands, and has been said

they can be protein to those who get stranded by storms etc in the future. Win win

situation in my books.

Geezer

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

FIVE UNINHABITED small islands in Phuket province have been chosen as possible monkey colonies.

don't advise giving them boats

[arithai12]

55 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Good plan!  Let the monkeys be the jungle kings on thoses islands, and has been said

they can be protein to those who get stranded by storms etc in the future. Win win

situation in my books.

Geezer

Short-sighted plan, IMHO.

This will probably spell the end of local habitats for many other animals on those islands.

Besides, I want to see how they are going to catch and sterilize 100,000 monkeys.

 

About proteins, remember how humans got Ebola and HIV.

[arithai12]

On 5/15/2018 at 2:57 PM, lonewolf99 said:

Monkeys are not the problem....Humans are the problem.

2 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

Obviously you haven't had one of them big bastards jump on your back and try to rip your backpack open have you???    Scared the crap out of me, haven't been back to that area since.

While staying at a place bordering with a forest in India, we could not leave our bugnalow without a good stick and some stones in our hands. Sometimes we could find a macaque waiting outside the door or window. They are big, aggressive, and smart.

But in the case of Phuket, the origin of the problem is indeed with humans: villages expanding into forests, and selfie-taking, monkey-feeding tourists.

A bit late to find a good solution now.

[nycjoe]

Now if they could only wrangle the wild farang and sterilize and relocate them along with the monkeys. Just a monthly shipment of beer.......

 

 

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[lvr181]

Monkeys = politicians?

 

Great idea! 

[bluesofa]

Plan to ease monkey overpopulation over-copulation

[Stargeezr]

Get these aggressive animals onto unhabited islands is a great idea. Get them away

from humans and there will be less problems. For the umans who want to be near monkeys

there are still many places in Thailland where locals and tourists can be harassed.

I won't go up the hills near Petchaburi or monkey mountain at Hua Hin because  I have

been attacked in the past. As I have mntioned, I think it is a win win situation. And I

do not care if these animals may have HIV or other diseases.

Geezer

[MyFriend You]

HA-HA Monkey Over-copulation.........okay 1-200,000 monkeys relocated, they start etaing all the vegetation, make 1000's more babies  -  answer to monkey overpopulation??  round up 50,000 soi dogs and turn them loose on the islands, sooner or later they will start eating the monkeys, when they are all gone, they start eating each other.   win, win, win