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RE: Keystone Species in Action: The Beaver
The fur Trappers from the 1800s decimated the beaver species in the Western United States to the point where they were nearly extinct.
These days in my area we have more nutrias than we have beaver
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never heard of a nutria. yes, it's sad what happened to the beaver populations both here and in Europe... sadly people still kill them in my area today...
Nutria are Amazon giant rodents of unusual size. Priced for the quality of the fur. The fur market imploded in the 1980s and the get rich quick selling of breeding pairs of nutria flopped.
People released the nutria into the Columbia river ecosystem.
And Florida and Louisiana. They are a invasive species that is taking over. And they really excell in taking and removing dikes and allowing erosion to happen to keep the Amazon flowing...
Not good for the environment in the areas they are exploding at.
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oh wow, interesting. yet another example of humans influencing the ecosystem...