THE front page of The Examiner (December 12) quotes George Town Mayor Greg Kieser calling for a clearly stated business case ...

Japanese monkeys living in Launceston will be prevented from reproducing due to concerns of disease and inbreeding within the ...

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 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 City Park will become monkey-free within the next two decades after the local council voted to sterilise the ...

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

A wildlife advocacy group that is helping rehabilitate 31 captive macaques in Indonesia has weighed in on the Launceston ...

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