It was immortalised by the novelist Alexandre Dumas as the location for a stash of buried treasure, but the tiny Italian island of Montecristo is now struggling with a rather less romantic reality – a plague of black rats.
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Seagull steals a video camera
Seagull stole my video camera in Cannes France. I found it on the castle wall, where I had to climb.
How he feeds bed bugs for research.
W. Wayne White, B.C.E. for American Pest in Fulton, MD, explains how he feeds bed bugs for research.
Landmine-sniffing rats from Tanzania
Ruud Elmendorp reports on landmine-sniffing rats from Tanzania.
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Ruud Elmendorp: http://videojournalist.nl
Washington Heights unofficially crowned New York’s rat capital by city Health Department
http://nydailynews.com/ - HEIDI EVANS -Thursday, April 07, 2011
Washington Heights has won bragging rights for a distinction that would make any neighborhood cringe: Rat capital of Manhattan. A whopping 20% – or 606 of the 3,045 properties inspected by the city Health Department in 2010, had signs of rat infestation in Community District 12, which also includes Inwood. West Harlem ranked third – after the Lower East Side – with 14.9% of the 2,831 properties located there, Health Department records show. “This is a horrific, daily insult to the quality of life in New York,” Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said this week, condemning the city’s budget decision to terminate 63 pest control workers. “Any New Yorker who has ever seen rats scurrying down sidewalks and streets, in parks and plazas and across street medians knows that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
