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Britain once had 200,000 invasive coypus rodents, but a six-year trapping campaign reduced the population to almost nothing by 1987

Britain once faced a large coypu population introduced for fur farming. These invasive rodents damaged wetlands and agricultural crops significantly. A planned eradication campaign began in 1981 using intensive trapping methods. This effort successfully reduc…

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Britain once had 200,000 invasive coypus rodents, but a six-year trapping campaign reduced the population to almost nothing by 1987

Britain once faced a large coypu population introduced for fur farming. These invasive rodents damaged wetlands and agricultural crops significantly. A planned eradication campaign began in 1981 using intensive trapping methods. This effort successfully reduc…

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