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Beavers, imports from Canada, are threatening primeval forests of Patagonia

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Los Angeles Times

Publication Date
2017-01-06

It seemed like a good idea at the time.Transplanting 25 pairs of Canadian beavers to Tierra del Fuego would provide raw material for a fur industry, bring jobs to a sparsely populated region and — as an advertisement in 1946 suggested — possibly attract tourists to this remote part of the hemisphere by “enriching the local fauna.”

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http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-beavers-tierra-del-fuego-2017-story.html