China Fights Gerbil Plague

Scrapping ideas such as constructing a mile-long plastic ball for containment or building a million cardboard "Mr. Slave" scarecrows, China has decided to battle their fiercely cute gerbil hordes with contraception-abortion pills. The exploding gerbil population is threatening the local desert ecosystem, forcing forestry officials in the city of Changji to start distributing the contraceptive pellets. "Besides pregnancy prevention, the drug can induce abortions and thus largely reduce their breeding rate," said Du Yuefei, head of the epidemic prevention section of the city's forestry bureau.

Comments

I suggest a drug-free approach.

[FlyingSquidStudios]

China already has cornered the market on pet supply manufacture. I think a program to capture individual gerbils, place them in clear plastic balls, and release them back into the wild will both reduce the population and be really adorable!

Feed them pet food

[Ogive17]

Just feed them some of the pet food that's manufactured in China... that seems to do the job.