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March 3, 2014 Andy Cush

Good news for New York’s mute swans, which are currently under threat of total eradication by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation: the DEC will consider managing the birds in a way that doesn’t involve hunting down and killing every last one of them. The DEC originally proposed the plan because mute swans are an […]

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February 13, 2014 Andy Cush

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would like to kill all the state’s 2,000-plus mute swans by 2025, citing the fact that they’re technically a non-native species that destroys other animals’ habitats. Some people, unsurprisingly, are upset about this. One such person is Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens, who’s introduced a […]

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