NAIROBI ― Introduced to East Africa in 1891, in Zanzibar, to deal with domestic food waste, Indian house crows are now wreaking havoc in Kenya: killing native small birds, likely spreading disease, damaging food crops, and generally being a nuisance at tourist spots, open-space parties and businesses. The country is now battling millions of invasive […]
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NAIROBI ― Introduced to East Africa in 1891, in Zanzibar, to deal with domestic food waste, Indian house crows are now wreaking havoc in Kenya: killing native small birds, likely spreading disease, damaging food crops, and generally being a nuisance at tourist spots, open-space parties and businesses.
The country is now battling millions of invasive Indian house crows (Corvus splendens), especially in the coastal region popular with tourists, through an intensified campaign of poisoning. This is the first such effort since an initial attempt was aborted two decades ago after regulators banned imports of the poison DRC-1339, better known as Starlicide.
