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Save The Swans! Mute Swan’s ‘Death Sentence’ Reversed

Photo via Flickr/Caroline Granycome. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cgranycome/13199335103/in/photolist-m7o3ta-bwTbZM-GNk65h-ekaj6K-kYKLNN-mkD6WL-7qrpYW-e1tTP6-qr7GsY-e1tTPF-8iBFFX-pLFGPo-9YULm2-84FVf9-9YULBP-n8wvLB-61diqi-qr8o6h-eGqUFx-4ukLgN-5SeeSX-5LGWLa-8iBGpr-ePkwiz-7pu9po-qcXcTk-aEwHXS-FqHnYw-m9cKFa-9Kv2HQ-avF5j2-ocW5YU-9Ks4Qg-bAuxVH-qrgb1X-HTVqBv-bXhjeY-bnzwAb-aFGhXc-i8gq2z-bTGKC8-bAuAL4-bAuvSi-bnzHJd-5LGUYr-bnzDuJ-bAuwPB-2mdsni-aFt8rZ-m2rVex] Mute swans have a new look on life now that a

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Cymbrowitz Bill To Save Sheepshead Bay Swans Passes Assembly, Again

Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz announced his third attempt at legislation to protect Sheepshead Bay’s swans from eradication passed the Assembly last week. Cymbrowitz has doggedly tried to place a moratorium on the state’s plan to cull New York’s

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Cymbrowitz Reintroduces Bill To Save Sheepshead Bay’s Swans

Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is not backing down from his effort to protect Sheepshead Bay’s beloved swans. Cymbrowitz announced this week he has reintroduced a bill [http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A09289&

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ICYMI: Intolerable ‘Dirty Diaper’ Smell, New Uzbek Restaurant, Pushback Against Halfway House

Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on

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Conservationists Say Plan To Eliminate Sheepshead Bay’s Swans Is Based On ‘Weak’ Science

Swans, geese, and ducks in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sheepshead Bay’s swans have long been a target for extermination [/and-now-they-want-to-murder-sheepshead-bays-swans/] by the state. But a growing body of prominent environmentalists and conservationists say the evidence against these snow-white waterfowl – an indelible part of the neighborhood’s

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Cuomo Once Again Vetoes Bill To Protect Sheepshead Bay’s Swans

Mute swans mingle with geese and ducks in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)For the second year in a row, Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have blocked plans to reduce the New York’s population of mute swans, the snow white birds that have

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Sheepshead Bay’s Iconic Swans Back On State’s Kill List, Sort Of

Swans on Weber Court. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz)The state has released a new plan to manage the booming mute swan population, telling critics that if they don’t want to see the swans killed then they have to pay to keep them around. The revised plan, released Monday by

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DEC Opens Fire On Upstate Swans, Defying Elected Officials Who Passed Mute Swan Murder Moratorium

Photo by Eric JankiewiczNew York State Department of Conservation “wildlife specialists” opened fire on a pair of mute swans in upstate New York last Tuesday, orphaning their four baby swans and defying a two-year moratorium on lethal population management techniques that had just passed the Senate and Assembly [/bill-protecting-mute-swans-passes-assembly/]. The

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Bill Protecting Mute Swans Passes Assembly

Photo by Eric JankiewiczThe following is a press release issued yesterday by the offices of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz: New York’s mute swans may at last have a voice in their future. The Assembly today passed a bill introduced by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) that would effectively save the state’

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Should New York’s Mute Swan Population Be Eliminated?

Would you miss Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/]‘s swans if they were gone? The Department of Environmental Conservation [http://www.dec.ny.gov/] recently proposed a plan to completely eliminate New York’s mute swan population [http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/muteswanmgmtpln2013.pdf] over the