@JoeyMannarino The Broken Windows Theory is a criminological concept positing that visible signs of disorder and neglectโsuch as broken windows, graffiti, or litterโcreate an environment that encourages further petty offenses and serious crimes.
@JLioundris@SkyeZedA Here where I stay the owner of an artisan bread shop employed only Zimbabweans, worked for him for quite some time, trusted them completely untill one day they emptied his bank account and dissappeared
@HomeAffairsSA There should be a reward for information leading to the arrest of illegal immigrants, especially if they are wanted by their home country for crimes committed
Flaco the Eurasian Owl escaped Central Park Zoo in February 2023 when an unknown person cut the stainless steel mesh of his enclosure. For a year, he survived among the Manhattan skyscrapers. In February 2024, he was found dead on a sidewalk.
The necropsy found four different rat poisons in his body.
We know Flaco's story because he had a name and a reputation, but unfortunately, this story plays out among hundreds, if not thousands of birds of prey every year.
A 2020 Tufts study found anticoagulant rodenticide in 100 percent of 43 red-tailed hawks tested across the northeastern US. In California, 92 percent of tested predatory birds showed exposure. In Massachusetts, 86 percent of dead raptors tested positive. In 2024, an entire great horned owl family in Lincoln Park died of rodenticide poisoning.
The mechanism is the same every time. A poisoned rat doesn't die right away. It takes up to ten days, stumbling around in the open, slow and easy to catch. The owl eats it. Then another. Then another. The poison accumulates up the food chain until it kills the animal that was doing your rodent control for free.
A barn owl family eats between 1,000 and 3,000 rodents a year at no cost to you. The rodenticide under your sink does the same job and kills the barn owl too.
Flaco survived a zoo escape, a Manhattan winter, and a year of hunting in one of the densest cities on Earth. The thing that killed him was the poison on the shelf of your local hardware store.
@ClarksonsFarm1 Trees also loves to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, each 10 trees planted equals one less climate activist vandalising another museum painting. Thus plant trees to save the arts too, win win