Tag: beaver

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Chilean scientists studying the impact of invasive species in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Chilean scientists with teams of students are analyzing the impact of invasive or introduced species in Tierra del Fuego on autochthonous fauna, such as the case of some King Penguin rookeries that have become the target of foxes targeting their chicks.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:10 UTC

  Ushuaia out off internet: beavers cut the optic fiber to build dens

  

  Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina was left without internet and cellular phone communications most of last Friday because beavers had bitten pieces of the optic fiber for their dens.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentina plans to cull 100.000 beavers devastating Tierra del Fuego woodlands

  

  Argentina will cull 100,000 beavers which are devastating southern woodlands by gnawing down huge trees, officials said this week. The plague of big-toothed rodents has struck in the Tierra del Fuego province, a far southern region known as “the End of the World.”