Lop Buri administration to capture and sterilise monkeys
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The Lop Buri provincial administration plans to capture some 100 to 200 monkeys that have been causing nuisance to the people in the downtown area.
Lop Buri Governor Phanu Yaemsri said the crackdown on the monkeys living near the Manorah Market will begin on Sunday and end on April 28. The captured monkeys will be sterilised and moved to the animal sanctuary in Nakhon Nayok.
The operation is aimed at controlling the population of monkeys in the province, the governor said, adding this group of monkeys had moved out from the Phra Kan Shrine and had been causing trouble to the local residents.
He said Lop Buri livestock officials will use modern microscopic operation technique to perform surgery on the female monkeys to minimise the wound.
