Just in time for Trudeau’s visit, Argentina declares pitiless war of extermination on Canadian beaver
Mere days before playing host to the visiting Canadian prime minister, Argentina announced that it is launching a merciless war of extermination on Canada’s most recognizable symbol.
Early this week, Argentina announced that, in partnership with Chile, it will be dispatching a crack team of 10 hunters into the wilds around Tierra Del Fuego, at the rugged southern tip of South America.
Equipped with helicopters, cold weather gear and training to survive extended periods in hostile terrain, their decade-long mission is to trap and destroy 100,000 Canadian beavers.
“There are one or two beaver colonies per kilometre of river. We want to get these animals as fast as possible,” Argentine invasive species biologist Adrian Schiavini was quoted as saying in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The animals are all descendants of a group of 20 to 50 Canadian beavers first released onto Argentina’s southernmost island in 1946. The idea, hatched under the reign of strongman Juan Perón, was to fill southern forests with beavers in order to boost the Argentine fur economy.
But with no natural predators, the rodents soon thrived with an intensity that they had never known in their native land. (In Canada, beaver populations are kept in check by a variety of sharp-toothed carnivores including lynx and wolverines.)
The animals colonized every environment they could find, from peat bogs to steppe to grasslands. They were in Chilean territory by the 1960s, and by the 1990s horrified authorities were noting that the beavers had crossed to the South American mainland. Beavers now occupy a piece of South America the size of New Brunswick.
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Some of the humorous comments following the article
JP Mohr · Vancouver, British Columbia
Who will save the wee beavers?
Send them home!!! These are our fellow citizens!!! They're like the québécois or something. We shouldn't just let them be slaughtered no matter how big a nuisance they are.
#bringourbeavershome
Mike StirtonI know...lets give them a few cougars, a couple wolf packs, some Minx and Lynx...that'll fix it...
Kel Lyons"Dam you Argentina, dam you all to hell!"......signed;The Beavers.
Ron Jackson · Holy Family University, Pennsylvania
How about catching them live and dropping them by air over Ottawa.
Early this week, Argentina announced that, in partnership with Chile, it will be dispatching a crack team of 10 hunters into the wilds around Tierra Del Fuego, at the rugged southern tip of South America.
Equipped with helicopters, cold weather gear and training to survive extended periods in hostile terrain, their decade-long mission is to trap and destroy 100,000 Canadian beavers.
“There are one or two beaver colonies per kilometre of river. We want to get these animals as fast as possible,” Argentine invasive species biologist Adrian Schiavini was quoted as saying in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The animals are all descendants of a group of 20 to 50 Canadian beavers first released onto Argentina’s southernmost island in 1946. The idea, hatched under the reign of strongman Juan Perón, was to fill southern forests with beavers in order to boost the Argentine fur economy.
But with no natural predators, the rodents soon thrived with an intensity that they had never known in their native land. (In Canada, beaver populations are kept in check by a variety of sharp-toothed carnivores including lynx and wolverines.)
The animals colonized every environment they could find, from peat bogs to steppe to grasslands. They were in Chilean territory by the 1960s, and by the 1990s horrified authorities were noting that the beavers had crossed to the South American mainland. Beavers now occupy a piece of South America the size of New Brunswick.
More..........
Just in time for Trudeau’s visit, Argentina declares pitiless war of extermination on Canadian beaver | National Post
Some of the humorous comments following the article
JP Mohr · Vancouver, British Columbia
Who will save the wee beavers?
Send them home!!! These are our fellow citizens!!! They're like the québécois or something. We shouldn't just let them be slaughtered no matter how big a nuisance they are.
#bringourbeavershome
Mike StirtonI know...lets give them a few cougars, a couple wolf packs, some Minx and Lynx...that'll fix it...
Kel Lyons"Dam you Argentina, dam you all to hell!"......signed;The Beavers.
Ron Jackson · Holy Family University, Pennsylvania
How about catching them live and dropping them by air over Ottawa.
