Abandoned Beaver Dam, Tierra del Fuego National Park

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Abandoned Beaver Dam, Tierra del Fuego National Park

In 1946 Argentine administrators imported 50 beavers from Canada, but their goal of spurring a fur trade never took off. Instead, the beavers did, helped by the fact that there are no natural predators here — no wolves, no bears.  The first beavers were let loose in Lake Fagnano in the middle of Tierra del Fuego and from there they spread across a string of islands along the Beagle Channel. Now, a colony has been established on the Brunswick Peninsula in Chile on continental South America, and that has alarmed officials in both countries.  To stem the beaver population, authorities have paid rewards to trappers, but that didn’t have much of an effect because few people here know how to trap. In the tourist town of Ushuaia, they even tried to get restaurants to serve beaver dishes to generate a trade in beaver meat but it never took off. The latest proposal is a complete eradication, to kill every single beaver as both Chile and Argentina have agreed. Logistically, though, it’ll be hard in rugged, wet terrain and then there are the tourists to consider. They come to the region to hike, to take in the penguins, the roaring sea lions, but they also come for the beavers. They are, after all, very cute: round, furry, with buck teeth and long whiskers, and you just can’t fault their work ethic. The authorities say “tourists don’t know the whole story as there are few who are well-informed about the beavers and the damages they cause.”

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