Even as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Argentina on a state visit today, that country is planning a mass killing of Canadian invaders in the country.
In fact, both Argentina and neighbouring Chile are in on the war against the “Canadians” at the southern tip of the continent.
It seems back in 1946, the Argentine Navy released ten to fifty Canadian beavers (stories vary) into the wilderness on Tierra del Fuego to add to the ecosystem and perhaps start a fur trade business.
Well the beavers got busy, in more than one way, and with virtually no natural predators in the region there are now hundreds of thousands of them chewing up the trees across the landscape. they have become the typical “invasive species”.
Kill them all !
The additional problem is that there is little to no regrowth of trees at that extreme southern latitude and after the beavers chew their way through the trees, all that is left is a barren landscape at the “end of the world”.
The situation has become such that two filmmakers, Pablo Chehebar and Nicolas Iacouzzi produced a documentary called “Castores: La Invasion del Fin del Mundo (Beavers: invasion at the tip of the world).
Quoted in Foreign Policy, Iacuzzi said, “The situation was so serious that people dedicated to the conservation of species and nature said ‘the only thing left is to kill them all.’”
The plan to declare war on the Canadian beavers with a target of killing about 100,000 of them in the rather remote region. The effort is estimated to take anywhere from ten to fifteen years. Of course during that time, the Canadian invaders will have lots of time to keep “getting busy”.
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