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Beaverless in Brazil
Brazil has no beavers. South America does have some, but they're unwelcome guests at the far southern tip of the continent.
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Beaver facts
- Brazil has no beavers, but it does have the capybara (capivara), the world's largest rodent. The beaver comes second.
- South America's only beavers are invaders: in 1946 Argentina released twenty North American beavers in Tierra del Fuego to start a fur industry.
- They have since multiplied to as many as 110,000 animals.
- They have spread into Chile and onto the Argentine and Chilean mainlands, leaving dead forests and stagnant ponds behind them.
- In 2008 Argentina and Chile agreed to eradicate them and restore the damaged ecosystems.
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