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The Cape Peninsula baboons are running out of time. While the courts have spent months dealing with procedure, plans for capture, confinement and irreversible interventions have continued moving forward. But this case has now exposed something far bigger: the Western Cape Constitution created an independent Commissioner for the Environment — an office never properly operationalised, and which the DA-led Province has instead sought to remove. On Friday, 28 August 2026 at 10h00, LFN returns to the Western Cape High Court in a critical hearing that could determine how this fight proceeds. The baboons may have opened the door, but what lies behind it concerns environmental accountability across the entire Western Cape.