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By Hiyah Zaidi
New York City is considering giving contraceptives to rats to control their numbers and apparently, it’s ‘better than pizza’.
As the city continues its 200-year-long battle with rats, the state’s authorities have realised that killing them is not an effective solution.
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By Maysoon Khan, Cedar Attanasio, and the Associated Press
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NUEVA YORK — Los legisladores de Nueva York están proponiendo normas para reducir la población de ratas y otros roedores usando anticonceptivos y prohibiendo las trampas de pegamento y venenos que las llevan a una muerte lenta y brutal.
Los políticos llevan mucho tiempo ideando formas creativas de combatir a los roedores, pero algunos legisladores ahora proponen medidas a nivel municipal y estatal para hacer más.
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By Carol Tannenhauser
Four Upper West Side legislators shared a Zoom screen Tuesday night to discuss e-bike safety (or the lack of it), but on at least one issue they were not all on the same page.
In an online forum sponsored by the UWS Coalition of Block Associations &
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By Maysoon Khan and Cedar Attanasio
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.
Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more.
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By Alex Arger
It seems New York City leaders have again concluded that they can’t kill enough rat lives to solve their problem, so why not try to nip the issue at the bud instead?
The metropolis’ city council introduced a bill Thursday that would establish a “rat contraceptive”
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By Gabrielle Holtermann
Animal rights activists with Lights Out Coalition held a rally alongside City Council Member Shaun Abreu outside City Hall on Thursday, calling on the council to pass a package of three bills titled “Flaco’s Law.”
The set of bills is named after the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and quickly captured the hearts of the city and social media by storm before he died on Feb.
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By Haley Brown and Aneeta Bhole
Love is in the air for squeakhearts — and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.
Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation — in the latest attempt to quell the plague.
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By John Dias
NEW YORK – Is birth control the best way to tackle the city’s growing rat population? That’s what New York City Council members are considering.
A set of bills were introduced Thursday that, if passed, may get better control of the rat population while also helping out other wild animals.
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By Katie Honan
The New York City Council on Thursday introduced a bill to protect the city’s wildlife — inspired by the death of Flaco the owl and other birds of prey sickened by eating poisoned rats.
“Flaco’s Law” would include changes to how the city mitigates its rat population, encouraging a different kind of birth control for the rodents — instead of poison.
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