The area they roost in is not a safe place to visit, they tend to move between the river and where they have young possibly again this year.
Baboons are scary when they move through in troops, not easy to control man will never chase them from their routes.
So sad that we all cannot visit certain areas, as if we could, you will be sure to find the young in their nest with your camera.
Baboons were here first, and it is their territory that was invaded by man. Simple as that, but not so simple, as man wants to kill them, without realizing that man was an intruder in their space. Many years ago, the famous town of Franschhoek was once called the valley of the elephants, as hundreds of elephants fed on the trees there when they passed through the valley. Now the valley is occupied by a town, and the elephants were eradicated.
Such is life.
Very worrying, as nature stands in the way of profit for the developers.
Overcoming problems rather than making matters worse would be beneficial.
All new buildings built carry solar generation, new roads have animal tunnels beneath where freeways are built like Europe, assist rather than completely destroy. Leave tracts of land for the animals to survive.
People don't do that anymore, as they rather pass the problem fixing down the line to others, until it lands in the dustbin.
Makes sense, and we have thousands of frogs that have to cross a road to get to the other side of the wetland, during the mating season. It's a very busy road and you can only imagine how many frogs are killed by the traffic. I saw that they have now established a non-profit called "Friends of the Frogs", but I am not updated about their plans. Will go and have a look. !LOLZ