beavers return!!!

[vduben]

why havent they introduced them befor?? wounderful creatures, cant wait to see them properly wild again!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6291260.stm

[Charlieh]

there are wild beavers in the UK (escapees) they just arent well known about.

 

The problem is people think of american beavers and then trees in rivers and dams etc, and this causes loads of politics, and issues about flooding and fish passage etc etc.

 

european beavers dont really make big dams (if they make dams at all) and im all for it in the right locations, there is currently a project aiming to establish a truely wild population not on a nature reserve, no fences, no boundaries. A suitable catchment cant be located for the trial reintroduction although i think the project will be up and running within 12months with truely wild populations being established.

 

Charlie

[atree]

Go the beavers!

[Ross Winchester]

:thumbup:That will be great .we have otters in this area now so why not beavers.

[Mike Hill]

Both Otters and Beavers posess pelts of the highest quality.

 

Beaver farms would mean less reliance on synthetic fibers and less damage to the enviroment.

[Al Smith]

I had no idea that beavers lived anywhere but North America,I learned something .

 

We have them in Ohio but in limited numbers.