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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0049_01C8ED0F.C0474E10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The latest issue of Maclean's magazine (July 28, page 43) has an = interesting article about good old Castor canadensis wreaking havoc in = parts of Russia. The animals are the descendents of Canadian beavers = released into the wild in neighbouring Finland in 1937 in order to = re-establish the overtrapped and overhunted local beaver populations. Apparently now there are some 20 000 wild Canuck beavers in = northwestern Russian, perpetrating the usual misdeeds such as flooding = infrastructure and felling valuable trees. It is not clear from the = article whether the Canadian beavers are simply re-colonizing empty = beaver habitat or whether they are actually displacing the native = Eurasian species, Castor fiber. Or whether the two species are = hybridizing. Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_0049_01C8ED0F.C0474E10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> The latest issue of Maclean's magazine (July 28, page = 43) has=20 an interesting article about good old <EM>Castor canadensis</EM> = wreaking havoc=20 in parts of Russia. The animals are the descendents of Canadian beavers = released=20 into the wild in neighbouring Finland in 1937 in order to re-establish = the=20 overtrapped and overhunted local beaver populations.</DIV> <DIV> Apparently now there are some 20 000 wild Canuck = beavers in=20 northwestern Russian, perpetrating the usual misdeeds such as = flooding=20 infrastructure and felling valuable trees. It is not clear from the = article=20 whether the Canadian beavers are simply re-colonizing empty beaver = habitat or=20 whether they are actually displacing the native Eurasian species, = <EM>Castor=20 fiber</EM>. Or whether the two species are hybridizing.</DIV> <DIV> Dusan Soudek </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0049_01C8ED0F.C0474E10--
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