China will not send ducks to tackle locusts in Pakistan, says expert

Beijing academic rejects local news report that 100,000 ducks would be sent to fight plagueChina will not be sending ducks to Pakistan to chomp through a plague of locusts after all, an expert from Beijing’s troubleshooting team has said.A report in the Ningbo Evening News had said 100,000 ducks would be sent from Zhejiang province to Pakistan to deal with its worst locust invasion in two decades, generating 520m views on China’s Weibo social media platform on Thursday and thousands