Simon's Town

you know, all of us and all many of us feel. As a contractor, I'm had to go to from Fishook to Simonstown, to Seapoint, Greenpoint, and other parts of the of the Cape Town. It's hitting me quite badly, the price of the petrol. You know, and of course many other people gonna also be affected. Who are not affected as as much and actually they make a profit, Sasso and other companies who manufactures this

Relationship with the petrol. You don't just drive for fun. We drive because the geography demands it. We live in a very large city comparatively, not as large as Joba, but a large city. So if you're driving from Atlantis to the CBD or from Gordon's Bay into town, maybe you have to drive from Simonstown to Bowville, Somerset West to Century City. And then there are the people who do this every single day.

They all were there, you know, we're moving these two tubes and what's going to happen to the ecosystem. And I really wish that they played an important role in the ecosystem, but they're not in the natural area enough to. They are in the urban area and they're not eating natural vegetation very much. They're eating junk food and milk tarts. I constantly see baboons in Simonstown eating milk tarts. I don't know what it is. There must be a very good bakery there. But this is the thing. And so actually, they're not fulfilling their ecological role there.

Educate human beings. How many times have we told people do not feed the wildlife and yet they still will? And this is part of the challenge because a lot of people are saying, oh, well, we just need to enforce the laws better. You know, we need to enforce the laws better. We should have law enforcement all over Simonstown to find people. And it's, I mean, yes, that would be wonderful if we could find everybody with an open bin. But at the same time, we don't have enough law enforcement to, you know, do anything, like, let alone.

Free and it would be better for them to be free, even if they're in Simonstown, being shot by people, than it is to be in a semi-wild enclosure. And I'm like, who is that better for? I think it's better for the people who are saying it than the actual bagoons who are having to live there every day. And it's the same with all human wildlife conflict. Most of it is about, well, not most of it, all of it, is about people. It's about people's perceptions of wildlife, about their perceptions of other people's perceptions of wildlife. And we're disagreeing over that.