Beaver Cull
Argentina and Chile have declared all-out war on 100,000 invasive beavers that are devastating ancient forests in a far southern region known as the End of the World.
Fifty beavers were imported from Canada to Tierra del Fuego in 1946 in a misguided attempt to create a fur trade industry. But the population of the big-toothed rodents has since exploded, causing severe damage to the forest ecology.
Experts say the beavers will be trapped, then bashed in the head for a swift death in a cull approved by the U.N. and environmental groups.
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