{"id":65499,"date":"2021-10-20T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=65499"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:34:15","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-amongst-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-amongst-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to live amongst rats? UBC researchers weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, a port city with a mild climate, is the ideal environment for rats to call home, especially in the Downtown Eastside.<\/p>\n<p>One UBC based group of researchers is using the negative for a positive, studying the effects of humans cohabiting with rats and looking toward solutions to improve the inevitable living arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwhcbc.com\/vancouver-rat-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver Rat Project<\/a> began in 2011 and has been collecting important data ever since, even bringing VANDU (the Vancouver Network of Drug Users in the Downtown Eastside) on board for front line feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The Pulse's Jordan Kawchuck spoke to Kaylee Byers, co-founder of the Vancouver Rat Project, about what it means for us to live amongst rats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, a port city with a mild climate, is the ideal environment for rats to call home, especially in the Downtown Eastside. One UBC based group of researchers is using the negative for a positive, studying the effects of humans cohabiting with rats and looking toward solutions to improve the inevitable living arrangement. The Vancouver&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":65503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,223],"tags":[10133,10134,10136,10135,8214],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65499"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=65499"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=65499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}