Rentokil Initial shares rose to a four-and-a-half-year high on Friday as strong demand for its pest control services combined with cost measures to drive pre-tax profit up 58.4 per cent. The company unveiled a series of innovative products, including a trap for small vertebrates that sends a text when it catches a creature and an infrared-activated poison dispenser as it seeks to stimulate further growth in its mature markets, where competition is intense.
GREENSIDE – A female owl and her owlet, who are living in an owl box on Gleneagles Road in Greenside, were ringed so that they can be easily identified in future.
River Square Shopping Centre has installed EcoSolutions owl boxes to support urban wildlife and provide a natural way to control rodents without poisons.
The report "Rodenticides Market by Type (Anticoagulants, Non-Anticoagulants, and Others), by End User (Agricultural Field, Warehouses, Pest Control Companies, Urban Centers, and Others) & by Geography - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019" defines the rodenticides market and segments it into agriculture & farming, pest control companies, urban center segments with analyses and projections of the market size of each of these segments, in terms of value.
"From tree tags to owl boxes, potholes and security cameras, the Randpark Ridge Village Association (RRVA) has plans to better and beautify its area."
Middle East in 24: ''SARS-CoV-2 has not been found in bats in Russia. We tested samples from about two hundred bats, from Different types, with (RT-BCR) we were looking specifically for viruses very similar to (SARS-Cove-2), but we didn’t find anything.” [Photo from Middle East in 24]
SABC Interview with Jonathan Haw on the Township Owl Project
A tawny owl that was recently found stuck to a glue trap in northern Israel has died after employees of the Safari Zoological Center and Nature and Parks Authority were unable to save it.
EcoSolutions facilitated the release of young Barn Owls at Sakata Seed to naturally manage rodent populations.
Sandton Chronicle: EcoSolutions' visit to Sandhurst was a successful one as they managed to ring barn owls and educate clients.
Saving Species is a monthly look at how growers can help key wildlife species by Peter Thompson, farmland biodiversity adviser at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
DAINFERN – The McCallum family are overjoyed that a family of Spotted Eagle Owls (Bubo africanus) have decided to call their chimney home.
''We successfully tracked 30 bats over the 3-year period and found a positive correlation between home range size and temperature.'' Journal of Mammalogy, Ellen M Hall, Victoria J Bennett. Published: 13 October 2021
"The first reports of Snowy Owls during the week began with a “possible” sighting on the west jetty Nov. 22. Earlier in November there was a sighting in Chatham. There were two on Cape Cod, at the south end of Nauset Beach, on Saturday. One was seen there on Sunday, so perhaps the other drifted across the sound to check out Nantucket."
Philippi residents say there is just no getting rid of the rats terrorising them in their homes. But the City of Cape Town has a plan to introduce owls to solve the problem.
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A young barn owl looks bug-eyed in curiosity as a bird handler readies it for a new life - to be spent hunting the rats that plague South Africa's poor and mostly black urban areas.
A young barn owl looks bug-eyed in curiosity as a bird handler readies it for a new life - to be spent hunting the rats that plague South Africa's poor and mostly black urban areas.
Rentokil Shares Rise on Stronger Profits
