A challenge was that baboons were causing substantial damage. Safcol worked with industry working groups and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), the Parks Board, nature conservation bodies and universities and was conducting research on how baboons damaged trees and what triggered such behaviour as there was no nutritional value in respect of the damage. Safcol was investigating ways to control the damage. Young males had been identified as stripping the trees. In conjunction with all the mentioned role players, Safcol had embarked on a programme to catch the young males and eliminate them. Relocation had been considered. The damages stemmed from a population increase amongst baboons, which forced troops to expand from their previous territories into the plantations. This was a big problem. Troops moved between plantations. In Zimbabwe it was so bad that the authorities had decided to poison the baboons, with the consequent deleterious effect on other fauna, which fed on the poisoned baboon meat.