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Index of Subjects Now that has me curious. Apparently some 'Canadian' beavers were released into the wild of the Islands off the tip of South America and they were heading home and messing things up severely as they went. Does anyone know where they have gotten to and are they still rampaging? Marg Millard White Point, Queens http://margmillard.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dusan Soudek" <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Canadian beavers in Russia 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
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