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
Kiri (given name) name include: Kiri (given name) Kiri is a given name appearing in various cultures. In Māori, "kiri" means "skin", "bark", or "rind". In Korean, the meaning of the name differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name; there are 68 hanja with the reading "ki" and 26 hanja with the reading "ri" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. In Finland, Kiri (male) name is listed in Finnish orthodox calendar. The name is a short version of Kyriakos (Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite. Notable people