Lop Buri wants fewer monkeys
published : 8 Feb 2024 at 06:02
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday launched a plan with Lop Buri authorities to control the city’s monkey population.
The 13th-century Phra Prang Sam Yot temple is home to a large macaque population that raids local communities and pesters visitors.
The department said the macaques were trouble-makers and the new plan was aimed at protecting people.
The monkeys would be sterilised, moved to a macaque facility in tambon Pho Kao Ton and released into natural habitats.
"The macaque population is soaring while the area available to them is shrinking due to property development and agricultural expansion. Natural food and water sources are also falling due to the hot weather.
"As a result, conflict between humans and macaques is intensifying," the department’s director-general said.
Last year there were 5,709 macaques counted in Lop Buri, including 2,206 in the municipality, he said.
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- agricultural (adj): of the science or practice of farming - ที่เกี่ยวกับเกษตรกรรม
- conflict: an angry disagreement between people or groups - ความไม่ลงรอยกัน
- facility: a building used for a particular purpose - สิ่งก่อสร้าง
- habitats (noun): the type of places that particular animals usually live in or particular plants usually grow in - ถิ่นที่อยู่ของพืชหรือสัตว์
- intensify (verb): to increase in degree or strength - ทำให้แรงขึ้น, ทำให้หนาแน่นขึ้น
- macaques (noun): a type of monkey that lives in Africa and Asia - ลิงแสม
- municipality: a town, city or district with its own local government - เทศบาล
- pestering: behaving in an annoying manner towards someone by doing or asking for something repeatedly - รบกวน
- population: a particular group of people or animals living in a particular area - กลุ่มที่อาศัยอยู่ในที่เดียวกัน
- raid (verb): to enter a place, usually using force, and steal from it - ปล้น
- soaring: rising very quickly to a high level - พุ่งพรวดขึ้น
- sterilise (verb): to make a person or an animal unable to have babies, especially by removing or blocking their sex organs - ทำให้เป็นหมัน
