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Inside Kenya’s plan to poison a million crows

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Indian house crows have been part of Mombasa 's fabric since they first arrived decades ago.

The crows are savagely out-competing or even preying on local bird species.

They are now advancing inland from their stronghold on the Indian Ocean coast, riding a wave of rapid urbanisation in Kenya which brings the rubbish dumps and waste where they thrive.

The Kenyan government’s solution is a mass cull of the crows.

House crows carry at least eight human diseases in their guts.

The GISD says that a link with the spread to humans is yet to be established.

To make the cull as effective as possible, the crows are gradually lured to where they will be killed.

Months of pre -baiting leaves meat out to encourage them to gather at specific sites near roost sites.

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