Argentina is gearing up for a beaver bloodbath, all to fix a bizarre environmental catastrophe
Argentina is gearing up for a beaver bloodbath. The South American country is training an elite hunting unit to trap and kill 100,000 beavers that have chomped their way through thousands of acres of pristine Patagonian forest.
The planned kill-off is the latest effort to fix one of mankind’s most foolish and bizarre environmental catastrophes in South America.
Beavers were introduced to Argentina’s southern tip in the 1940s, in an ill-conceived effort to start a fur-trapping industry on the remote Tierra del Fuego island. But the North American species soon overran the territory when its population exploded due to a lack of natural predators.
Now Argentina has announced it will train an elite team of hunters to track down and eradicate the animals before they fell the last tree.
http://www.businessinsider.com/argentina-is-gearing-up-for-a-beaver-bloodbath-2016-12
