Joburg remains committed to rodent control in Alex despite failed owl project

This brings to 296 the number of people employed for the various initiatives.Adding to this was Ephraim Pooe, who until earlier this year was part of the region’s citizen relations management team and headed the owl project when he joined in 2014.“It could not be sustained due to community members’ beliefs about owls. Most people believe owls are used for witchcraft so as much as meetings were held to [present] the idea, once the owls were there things didn’t go as planned.”[But] pest control has always been there — the owl [introduction] was just a new element introduced…