(18 Feb 2025)
WORLD RATS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Brussels, Belgium – 26 September 2023
1. Close of rat under park bench at Place Eugene Verboekhoven
2. Mid of rat under park bench
3. Various of taxidermized rat eating French fry on display at the Brussels Sewer Museum
4. Pan of rat running through grass, around park bench
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Amsterdam, Netherlands – 11 February 2025
5. Wide of the De Albert Cuypmarkt’s street market at the De Pijp residential area in Amsterdam
6. Wide of people walking near food market
7. Mid of crate with vegetable rests and other garbage left on the street
8. Mid of garbage left on the street
9. Mid of people eating Dutch waffles
10. Various of Steve van Vliet, an expert of the Animal pest control unite at Amsterdam’s Public Health Agency GGD arriving by a cargo bike at the address affected by rats
10. Wide of the backyard of the residence complex
11. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Steve van Vliet, Animal pest control unit, Amsterdam’s Public Health Agency GGD
“You have reported a nuisance in the garden. Can you tell a little bit about where it comes from?”
12. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Jootje van der Molen, a resident of the apartment complex: (start pans from Vliet to Molen)
“Well, it’s not the first time. I’ve lived here for twenty years, and it’s always been like that, but not as extreme as it is now. And in the beginning, I fed birds. I’ll be honest, I’m a nature person, but I stopped doing that because I thought that’s not good. I like birds, but I ended up with more rats here. Yes, and I stopped doing that, but they are still here, so it doesn’t stop, and it is extreme now. Before, there were one or two rats. Now I see big rats and small rats. Probably, they have a nest somewhere.”
13. Steve van Vliet using torch and searching for rat traces
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave de Jonge, Project manager, Animal pest control unit, Amsterdam’s Public Health Agency GGD
”We now see another factor adding up to what we think is the cause of some complaints, which is wintertime is getting less cold over the years, which means that the rats can reproduce more easily and when there are more rats it usually means more complaints.”
15. Steve van Vliet using torch and searching for rat traces
16. Tracking of garden high grass
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave de Jonge, Project manager Animal pest control unit, Amsterdam’s Public Health Agency GGD
” We try to aim for the long-term solution and those are usually a little bit more difficult. It takes more time. It takes more intelligence, and people don’t see the results immediately, which is maybe also a reason people are still complaining about rats because they don’t see us killing them. They don’t see us using poison.”
18. Van Vliet and De Jonge taking off a tile on the terrace
19. Various of garbage under the tile, water, and pipes
20. Various of Van Vliet inspecting garage of the residence complex using a torch lamp
21. Van Vliet finds a dead small rat
22. Van Vliet makes captures a photo of dead rat with iPad
23. Van Vliet collects a dead rat and place it in a glove
24. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Steve van Vliet, Animal pest control unit, Amsterdam’s Public Health Agency GGD
“These types of plants are here because the grilles are too wide open, allowing rats to get in and out (of the parking garage). This (branch) must be removed.”
25. Various of Van Vliet inspecting the terrace
26. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Jootje van der Molen, Resident of the apartment complex:
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