Launceston City Council has voted to sterilise the popular troop of macaque monkeys living in City Park as they are becoming ...

Launceston City council has voted to sterilise the troop of captive monkeys in city park. It means the Japanese macaques, ...

A troop of monkeys that has lived in a Tasmanian park for four decades will get the unkindest chop because of worries about ...

For more than 40 years, visitors to Launceston’s City Park have been able to view Japanese macaques frolicking about in their ...

Launceston's popular City Park macaque monkeys could be gone in 20 years, as a motion to restrict their breeding goes before ...

The council said that continued breeding from the monkeys would cause overcrowding in the population - which is already plagued by the herpes B virus and in-breeding.

Launceston’s iconic monkey enclosure could be phased out in 20 years’ time as the local council proposes a breeding ban on ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. At its meeting next Thursday, the Launceston City Council will vote on whether or not to adopt a ...

A Tasmanian council is set to make a call on whether it should prevent future reproduction of its beloved population of Japanese snow monkeys, which have become a fixture of the city. At its ...