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"Gibraltar to kill "molesting" monkeys"
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Gibraltar to kill "molesting" monkeys
A pack of at least 25 of Gibraltar's famous monkeys are being killed because they are threatening human health in one of The Rock's popular tourism areas, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Two of the monkeys — a national symbol for the British colony at the foot of Spain — have already been given a lethal injection, said Gibraltar's Tourist Minister Ernest Britto who issued the license for their culling.
"The decision was not taken lightly," he said. "It is a last resort."
Gibraltar's residents have long lived alongside the monkeys or macaques, but Britto said the behavior of one pack had got out-of-hand in Catalan Bay and Sandy Bay, two popular tourist areas on The Rock.
"Children are frightened, people cannot leave their windows open for fear of the monkeys stealing, apes can bite and contact with them runs the risk of salmonella or hepatitis," said Britto.
Last month, Britto told Gibraltar's parliament that once the cull of 25 macaques is completed the overall monkey population would be set at around 200.
The cull will take time since the monkeys must be lured into cages and then sedated before killing, he said.
Gibraltar has been running a birth control problem to control the monkey population for about six years but the programme is taking time to work.
Franco Ostuni, general manager of the Caleta Hotel, said guests rooms have been vandalized by monkeys scrounging for extra food.
"What has to stop is the damage that apes are doing to Gibraltar, private properties and individuals without anyone taking responsibility for it," he said.
However, the International Primate Protection League said it was considering calling on tourists to boycott Gibraltar if the local government did not stop the cull.
"It is clear that the Government of Gibraltar is still not managing their population of macaques in a responsible manner, despite the fact that they undoubtedly boost the nation's economy as arguably their most popular tourist attraction," said Helen Thirlway, head of IPPL in the UK.
fuckin assholes
BOYCOTT!!!
the article mentions a birth control program the gov put in place to try to control the monkey population, but what exactly is this program and why has it not been effective? i can't find any information on it. seems like there should be a better solution to this problem that killing the monkeys!
effing assholes.
loco-you can kiss my ass. i hope those monkeys have pissed in ur steak.
Listen, I've been to Gibraltar and some of those monkeys are fricken scary.
Yeah, so I wrote my thesis on these monkeys- spent two summers following them around, no less. The only reason the monkeys are going down into the hotel area is because some of the staff there kept *feeding* them.
Something people forget is that the monkeys aren't in a zoo, they're wild animals that just happen to live really, really close to humans. If humans bring fatty or starchy foods to the monkeys, they're going to come back to humans to get more. And if tourists are dumb enough to eat snickers bars or ice cream while standing in the middle of a pack of monkeys, it's their own damn fault if the monkeys take it from them.
And if you're *really* dumb and try to get it back, they will bite you. Plain and simple
Oh, and if you're a *really* dumb american tourist, and put a peanut down your pants so that a monkey will come close and you can take a funny photo, don't be surprised when *it actually reaches into your pants and causes serious damage*.
I still can't believe someone was dumb enough to try that
GIBRALTAR ESPAÑOL!!!!!!!!!
I've been there and I've taken pictures with those monkeys! They are NOT dangerous! This is retarded. What a shame.
I went to Gibraltar in December of 2007. The monkeys are one of the only reasons that I went to Gibraltar. We had our tour guide feed the monkeys to take pictures with our group. If they kill them, they are going to lose tourism becuase Gibraltar has little to offer anyways.
Re: Nour – you are a fucking liar, no one was shot idiot. wtf
you are such an ass hole, the monkeys haven't done anything wrong if you want to blame some one for the way we are trating our own, blame yourself we are the ones resposable for being somtimes a disgusting greedy "human" beings. it shows what kind of nature you are made if you aren't kind for the innocent.
It doesnt say they were molesting anyone you fat fuck….and they wouldnt be there if their fucking homes werent being taken and made into stupid human structures…if you ask me humans deserve what they get when it comes to an animal getting revenge…GO MONKIES!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I have visited and photographed these monkeys in person. They are incredibly beautiful and funny and fascinating, and it would be a tragedy for any of them to be euthanized for ANY reason. Humans encroached upon THEIR territory, not the other way around. Oh, and NEWS FLASH: If you bought a house next to a colony of monkeys, you sort of forfeit the right to leave your windows open. Deal with it and let the monkeys live.
Legend has it that when the last monkey is gone from Gibraltar, the British lose their rule there.
this is so wrong man. first we destroy these monkeys homes, then we expect these animals not to try to survive and just starve?now, a few idiots who have a stick up there ass start complaining about the monkeys trying to EAT and now the goverment is stepping in with fair and unusual punishment to MURDER our close relatives.If people werent so selfcentered they would realize this god dammit.
ive been there and the monkeys r nice but like when it comes to the afternoon they get tired of seeing alot of ppl and they become aggresive…one bit me!!! and this other big fat one chased my sister!! funny but hostile
Dr Zeus, where are you?
Re: wtf – NOONE WAS SHOT???? Do you live in some kind of parallel universe or something??? We all SAW the video footage of those poor people get shot just for trying to get to Europe. It was all over the news damn it!
I don't blame the fucking monkeys I blame you selfabsorbed cunts who care more about animals than human beings. Go fuck yourself.
Re: Nour – I hate humans, couldnt care less if we are killed. We deserve it. We are the most cruel, barbaric disgusting species who have destroyed this planet, other animals and are one of the few species that have no problem killing our own. I would save a monkey, cat, dog, bird etc etc over a human any day. In fact the human species is way over populated too, lets cull humans while we are at it.
Re: fran –
Gibraltar NUNCA sera español. Por muchas pataletas y rabietas que vosotros y vuestro gobierno tengan. Haceros la idea que estais luchando una batalla perdida, no viene al caso.
Re: Nour –
Who are you refering to when you say the 'same authorities'. The Gibraltarian authorities have never shot any African people trying to get into Gibraltar. That's ludicrous. You might be thinking of the SPANISH dictator Franco and that happened a good 50-60 years ago.
Re: Naomi – No, not 50-60 years ago: 2-3 years ago. Watch the news. There are still african boat-people dying every day, trying to get into fucking fortress Europe to escape from miserable living conditions, war or persecution. And yet people here choose to close their eyes and get all upset about cute little monkeys rather than acknowledge the horrible suffering that 3rd world populations have to go through. It's pathetic.
lmfao. i dont usually comment, but i live in gibraltar and i cannot BELIEVEEE anything to do with this place has been posted on here.
LOL, I LOVE HOW THE MONKEYS ATTACK PEOPLES CARS AS THEY DRIVE PAST.
it's amazing.
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Re: Nour – I agree with you. I'm not sure if it was specifically in Gibraltar or somewhere else close by in the same border region between Europe and Marocco, but yeah: They opened fire on 400 people that day, several died. And it's not the first time this happens, there's a list on noborder.org/dead.php
Sucks.
Aww, poor monkeys! I think they have this same problem in India and Thailand with similar macaques/apes who hang around the Buddhist temples. Stinky little rascals. Why can't they just catch them and sterilize them, then release them back to the wild, like they do with feral cats.
Yes I can openly admit and I have been personally attacked by those hate mongers. Don't get me wrong I am 6foot 4 and 200 hunderd plus. But if it has not happened to you, you have no rite to an opinion. I still have nitemares about that day many years ago. It has an adverse effect on my life. Picture this years of counsiling. If I see a monkey
I shat myself and fall to the ground in tears and tremors. If we dont get controll of them they will spawn more hatered. They must be delt with people. In this world gone mad we wont spank the monkey the monkey will spank us
Its unfortunate but I can see the necessity in controlling the agressiveness and population of the monkeys. When I went to South Africa, I stayed in a resort where monkeys came onto the property. We were at the pool and there were several monkeys roaming b/c they were digging for food in the trash. One was brave enough to come up to the foot of my lounger. I tried to shoo it and it showed me its teeth and screamed at me. My friend stood up and yelled at it and it ran away. I was terrified that it was going to bite me and I might get some sort of disease. Also, we were told to keep our doors and windows to our rooms closed when we weren't in them. The monkeys would go into open windows/doors and demolish the rooms.
Wow, this news made it to Perez Hilton…Britney one day, Apes the next, that's crazy!
@ the culling.
Re: Patri –
The rock has been british for 300 years dumbass
"Children are frightened, people cannot leave their windows open for fear of the monkeys stealing, apes can bite and contact with them runs the risk of salmonella or hepatitis,"
This is one HELL of an exaggeration. I have lived in Gibraltar all of my life and i've never had a single problem with any of these apes. Sure they come down from the rock into town and catalan bay from tiem to time, if you leave food by your window they'll take it, your own damn fault. And for all the people who complain that they have had their sunglasses or whatever stolen by an Ape then tough shit i'm afraid, it will happen everywhere. I have NEVER heard of anybody being hurt by any of these apes, nor have I heard of hotel rooms or homes being trashed. But if people think its ok to kill animals which don't understand what they are doing because they are so stupid that clearly materialistic things are far more important than the welfare of an animal, then they can do what they like and regret it in the end. Thanks to the Gibraltarian government for making us all look like a bunch of ape murderers who live in fear.
Re: Nour – you are such and idiot. that is not true the only people have been shot are the people who try to come to europe with drugs and they are criminals not poor little africans, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AND those monkeys are not illigal immigrants, they belong there.
Re: Nour – yes i care about animals i care for a lot of things YOU DON'T KNOW ME and for your illigal africans immigrants There is rules and laws which they have to respect. what world ARE you living? so you think this people come here clean? they are mostly criminals trafiking drugs to europe and they carry guns. WHAT RESPECT DO YOU HAVE? YOU DON'T CARE FOR THE LAW, RULES OR NATURE YOU NEDD TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FROM HERE AND GO AND HELP THOSE AFRICANS !"WICH YOU SO MUCH CARE".
Why do they have to kill them? Can't they just move them to an uninhabited area?
So let me get this straight, man invades animals home, man thinks animals are cute and probably starts to feed them, etc, animal gets used to humans and start to treat humans like fellow animals, therefore humans must kill animals rather than remove them. Makes me ashamed to be human.
Re: Synthetikkk – Lol hay Jesseeeeee.
bull shit! Poormonkeys!!
I went to Gilbratar this past summer and the apes were what made the area so special. If they decided to do the humane thing and deal with the problem differently, I would understand that but this is ludicrous. The apes have been there a very long time and people have learned to deal with them for all of that time, they are a natural part of the area. This just goes to show how people deal with nature's problems try to kill them off or bury it just like global warming. We are all doomed to extinction unless we get some people with vision and a new point of view in office. I pray for us all.
i would like to say that i am from gibraltar, the fact that these actions are being carried out disgusted me, i have only now heard about these "molesting" apes, i'll tell you, i live right up the rock, there’s always been random groups of apes wondering in and around, i've even once had one come in my house, but never have i thought it nessorcery for any of them to be killed.
this is just a way for the rubbish excuse for a government we have to look as though they are actually doing something, when really they're not.
Re: LisaLove – btw just to let you know, gibraltar is possibably one of the safest places in the world, the only crimes that really take place here are drug crimes, oh and one report of possible murder in the last idk ten years, thought he guy isn't dead yet.
Re: Louise –
You fucking idiot, its you the one who belives in what your goverment tells you…HAHA…so i see you all the "llanitos" dont know anything about history….
ANYWAY, we dont want you either to be SPANISH,so you what you can do is pack all your fucking british staff and come back to your fucking, rainy and poor Country.We dont want you people, we just want you to give us back what we LET you , NOT GIVE YOU, hundred years ago.
So GIBRALTAR IS NOT BRITISH, HAS NEVER BEEN AND NEVER WILL BE, AS MOR AS YOU WANT ….
Poor British, so want to be in to the mediterranean sea …..you are so fucking funny clowns…¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
As a personal friend of the macaques I feel it is important to be honest and ultimately truthful.
Although it is not intentional the monkeys molest as a stress response to the constant barrage of paparazzi. Please vote for the little monkey Kiki or Koko. They appreciate your support so send bananas and know that your donation will be ignored by the Government of Gilbraltar as they have admitted to allowing the monkeys full reign of the hotels and hotspots the tourist skank around for a little monkey nibble and primate poopy. From the bottom of someone's
heart thank you.