Coypu salt marshes. Local extinction in their native range due to overharvesting led to the development of coypu fur farms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first farms were in Argentina and then later in Europe, North America, and Asia. These farms have generally not been successful long-term investments, and farmed coypu often are released or escape as operations become unprofitable. The first attempt at coypu farming was in France in the early 1880s, but it was not much of a success. The first efficient and extensive coypu farms were located in South America in the 1920s. The
Barak (given name) Barak (given name) The given name Barak, also spelled Baraq, from the root "B-R-Q", is a Hebrew name meaning "lightning". It appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Barak ( ""), an Israelite general. It is also an Arabic name from the root "B-R-K" with the meaning of "blessed" though it is mostly in its feminine form "Baraka(h)". The Semitic root "B-R-Q" has the meaning "to shine"; "lightning". The biblical name " is given after Barak, a military commander who appears in the Book of Judges. The Arabic cognate is ' (not to be confused with ', which