AR-News: (AR)Dam Beavers! Scandal Flares at 'End of the World'

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TIERRA DEL FUEGO, Argentina (Reuters) - The Great Beaver Plague, as some
furious locals call it, began in 1946 with the same good but misguided
intentions that have presaged countless other ecological disasters.

That year, Argentina's former military government imported 25 pairs of
beavers from Canada, hoping they would multiply and create a fur industry
among the chilly, lush forests on this large island at the very tip of
South America.

Multiply they did. But the fur trade never quite caught on, and there were
no natural predators. So today there are tens of thousands of beavers
wreaking havoc across Tierra del Fuego -- felling trees, damming up rivers
and stirring scandal among the humans as they butt heads over how to solve
the problem.

"The beavers are an enormous headache, a plague, and the worst part is
that nobody can agree on a solution," said Adriana Guillen, head of the
local wildlife department, as she shook her head in bewildered disgust. 

full story:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=4425962

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