Plan to give Bangkok’s monkeys new home, instead of evacuating them

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Plan to give Bangkok’s monkeys new home, instead of evacuating them

By The Nation

 

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The Bang Khun Thian district in Bangkok has drawn up ambitious plans to turn a 13-rai landlocked plot into a paradise for 600 to 700 long-tailed macaques instead of evacuating them to Phuket.
 

Prasert Chawee-in, director of the Bang Khun Thian district authority, said they did not agree with the proposal by a committee of the National Legislative Assembly to catch the monkeys and release them to Phuket’s uninhabited islands.

 

Prasert said his was the only district in Bangkok that had five groups of monkeys of long-tailed macaques.

 

He said the largest group lived near the Khun Kala Monument, which is known as “Monkey Monument” on the frontage road on the southern part of the western ring road in Tha Kham subdistrict.

 

Prasert said the district already owned a land-locked plot of 13 rai near Klong Chalermchai Pattana, just 500 metres from the monument and the district administration was now rushing to improve the ecology system on the plot in order to make it habitable for the monkeys.

 

It would also be launching a public relations campaign, asking for people to feed the monkeys there instead of by the roadside.

Prasert said the district would grow fruit trees for the monkeys and erect fences to prevent them from coming out to cause trouble to people.

 

After the project is completed, the district will turn the plot into an open zoo for people to visit.

 

He said the district also intends building a road to the monkeys’ new home and creating a water flow to it from a nearby canal, which is linked to the sea in Bang Khun Thian, to promote tourism.

 

He said the district had already discussed the project with the monkey management committee of the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30346409

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-28

[jvs]

And i was thinking feeding monkeys is not allowed?Another not so good idea.

Erect a fence to keep monkeys in?Oh yeah i forgot,monkeys can climb.

Why not fix the problem?

[humbug]

greed of the human species.

 

12 million humans live in the Bangkok area and cant even allow 600 monkeys to keep their existing home.

 

what a pile of crock we humans are

 

 

 

 

[metisdead]

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[mok199]

2 options..teach the monkeys how to kill rodents or how to drive taxis...

[MyFriend You]

    erect fences to prevent them from coming out to cause trouble to people.  Make that cages, there isn't a fence on the plane tan can stop a Monkey from climbing it.

[Ks45672]

5 hours ago, mok199 said:

2 options..teach the monkeys how to kill rodents or how to drive taxis...

They can already drive taxis, buses and minivans too...... ?

[bangkok8]

Let the monkeys take over and move everyone to monkey island.

[Stargeezr]

I hope this bunch of land will make the monkeys happy. I have had a cap ripped off of

my head, a bag of chips yanked from my hand, and one a monkey also yanked a juice

box from my hand and scratched me in the process. I am not a fan of these aggressive

animals. I have never had other humans do this kind of stuff.

[overherebc]

3 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

I hope this bunch of land will make the monkeys happy. I have had a cap ripped off of

my head, a bag of chips yanked from my hand, and one a monkey also yanked a juice

box from my hand and scratched me in the process. I am not a fan of these aggressive

animals. I have never had other humans do this kind of stuff.

Try Beach Road at 1 am ???