"To cull or not to cull pesky monkey"

The Straits Times, 16/4/2015

Singapore is at a crossroads in its management of wild monkeys and to cull or not to cull these native creatures has emerged as a key question. Public feedback on monkeys, mostly complaints and related to safety and nuisance concerns, fell sharply from 1860 instances in 2013 to just 750 last year. But that had stirred controversy over the cause, given that there had been extensive culling of the animals recently.

So should monkey be cull or be controlled using other method? We have come to a conclusion that monkey should and should not be culled. Culling refers to the killing of removed animal. The other methods stated include sterilization, herds monkey away from home, installing monkey proofed  bins, etc. Culling of the monkey is the fast and most efficient way of getting rid o the monkey. It reduce both the number of monkey and the number of breeding monkey in a short term, but it may be needed to be done again in later years as monkey will breed. However, if all the monkeys are sterilized, it will cause an aging monkey population, resulting in a possible extinction of monkey in the wild in Singapore, affecting the natural eco-system.
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Wen Rong & YiXuan