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The Coypu is a large semi-aquatic rodent which is native to South America. It was introduced to the British Isles ... Coypus usually emerge from their burrows and become active just before sunset, returning underground again just before sunrise. In Britain they do feed during the day which is not the case in S. America.
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www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th1f.htm
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An eradication campaign in the 1980s by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) succeeded in eradicating the coypu from Britain, culling animals over an area of 12,000km2. The success of this campaign was helped by the use of scientists to analyse and model the incoming data as well as a bonus scheme...
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www.nonnativespecies.org/01_Fact_File/06_Old_Fact_Sheet...
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By April 1986, there were estimated to be fewer than 40 coypu left in Britain, and the eradication campagin was stopped in 1989 after 20 months had gone by without evidence of the species presence. (Gosling and Baker, 1989)
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www.issg.org/database/species/management_info.asp?si=99...
www.issg.org/database/species/management_info.asp?si=99&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN
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To help find any remaining animals, three field staff were retained by the Coypu Research Laboratory to search for them. In December 1989 this team confirmed the presence of, and subsequently trapped, what was to be the last coypu found in the wild in Britain.
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vege1.kan.ynu.ac.jp/isp/pdf/Baker.pdf
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Laurie (1946) gave an account of the occurrence of the coypu (Mlyocastor coypus. Molina) in Great Britain. At that time, thriving wild colonies had become ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/2212
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Information on Species ... An extensive control campaign initiated in 1962, coupled with the severe winter of 1962/63 reduced coypu to about 2000 individuals restricted to Norfolk and Suffolk by 1970. A second campaign was initiated in 1981 with the aim of eradicating coypu from Britain within 10 years.
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wildlife1.wildlifeinformation.org/S/00Ref/MiscellaneousContents/B341DMacdonald_BritishMammals/4_Rodentia.htm
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In Britain, our environmental and animal rights groups have long subscribed to an ideology that would please the BNP. Foreign creatures that arrived in Britain as ... Which is why there are no more coypu in Britain, there is open season on our beautiful wild mink and the RSPB has it in for the parakeets (and the ruddy duck).
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article1563706.ece
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In Britain, coypus escaped from fur farms and became established on the Norfolk Broads where their adult numbers reached 5,000. They destroyed crops and local vegetation, and undermined banks and dykes. After a ten-year campaign they were eradicated in 1989 at a cost of over £2 million. ... In 1993 escaped coypu in Louisiana,
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/coypu
encyclopedia.farlex.com/coypu
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