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Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

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How to Create Sterility With Rodenticides

Scientists are working on ways to create self-limiting gene drives for invasive species. "To me, it's one of the most humane things we can do," he says. Using rodenticides on islands has had huge mortality on other species,. especially raptors who eat those sick and dying and dead rodents.

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