(July 19, 2026) – A high-level Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) executive delegation, led by Deputy Permanent Secretaries Mr. Chiradeth Karunkitkul, Mr. Thanit Tanbuaklee, and Miss Aranya Pornchaiya, convened a multi-agency stakeholder assembly in Soi Thian Thale 22 to finalize immediate and long-term zoning strategies for the district’s rising macaque population. Driven by severe urban encroachment complaints from local residents who have faced structural property damage, disrupted electricity infrastructure, compromised telecommunication lines, and ransacked homes, the assembly officially approved the immediate establishment of a temporary 1.5-rai monkey park on donated private land. This site is designed to safely contain and manage the disruptive macaques affecting the immediate neighborhood, which sits within a larger localized population of approximately 120 macaques recorded throughout the Soi Thian Thale 22 area.

This short-term containment strategy works in tandem with existing community measures implemented by the district office, which include distributing wildlife coexistence handbooks, reinforcing residential waste management with protective steel-mesh enclosure bins, and instituting strict feeding zones to gradually alter animal behavioral patterns. To ensure professional operational standards, authorities will conduct a formal study tour of advanced primate containment facilities in Nakhon Nayok Province to replicate successful enclosure models before finalizing the temporary site design.

Looking ahead, a permanent, large-scale solution has been mapped out for the district’s broader primate population, which currently totals 350 documented macaques split between Soi Thian Thale 22, the Samae Dam 17 housing estate, and the Khun Kala Monument. Relevant conservation authorities have completed a comprehensive site survey of a 12-rai BMA-owned plot near the Khun Kala Monument, designating a 3.3-rai section to serve as a permanent consolidated monkey sanctuary. The district office is currently drafting a formal budgetary framework to secure BMA funding for the 2028 fiscal year to ensure the permanent relocation of all three macaque groups into a singular, ecologically sustained habitat that permanently restores public safety and urban order.

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