Launceston's City Park will be monkey-free in about 25 years' time. City councillors have voted to sterilise the males in its ...

Launceston city councillors have voted to sterilise the troop of macaque monkeys that have lived in City Park for 40 years. The councillors voted in line with a recommendation from officers, which ...

Ten macaque monkeys arrived at City Park and monkey business continues as usual in Launceston. For a while, anyway. By the year 2000 the macaques were on death row. Nearly half the colony was ...

Photo shows A macaque monkey sits on a wooden bridge in an enclosure. Launceston's popular City Park macaque monkeys could be gone in 20 years, as a motion to restrict their breeding goes before ...

“We know the Launceston community cares very much about the welfare of the City Park monkeys and that ... but it prioritises the welfare of the monkey troop so we can keep them as healthy ...

The Launceston council will next week vote on whether to sterilise the monkeys in city park. The troop is the last remaining population of Japanese macaques in Australia and if the motion passes ...

A lack of genetic diversity within Launceston's resident Japanese macaques means local councillors will have to decide whether or not to sterilise them.

Picture: Rob Burnett The council has a Wildlife Exhibition Licence to operate the monkey enclosure ... impossible for Launceston to bring new macaques into its City Park troop.