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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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Mice/rats in your house or business? Call the pest control company. A company representative will come to your door and tell you the poisons they use are “safe.” When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. .” Alert: they’re lying. What to do?

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

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But at the last minute Reckitt-Benckiser pulled a fast one and contested the decision, leaving the company holding the gold ring – a monopoly on the most-toxic market. In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. Banner photo by Dave Harper; second by Suzie Gilbert; third by RATS.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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There, a conservation campaign led by Naga conservation activist Bano Haralu, based on community education and the promise of economic retooling, has successfully halted the massive slaughter of the hundreds of thousands of Amur Falcons who gather at the Doyang Reservoir. birding tour company. It is often hard to be positive.

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