Beavers are still contentious creatures on our crowded urbanised island.
They can be released into the wild (under licence) in Wales and Scotland. But in England they still have to be kept in an enclosure. To be honest for the Ealing site that is probably for the best for now whilst they get used to what's around them as they are hemmed in by a major road and a commercial centre.
I imagine that's not an issue where you come from, Tanith!
Oh, that's wonderful news. Weirdly, beavers have been consistently popping up around me this fall. Like Earth Hope's article about the Yosemites, or coming up in my own research on wildlife ponds. And I was just reading the children's book Rewilding: Bringing Wildlife Back Where It Belongs for another project of mine that talked about introducing beavers back to England (although I don't think it was for this particular project... I'll have to check).
Beavers are still contentious creatures on our crowded urbanised island.
They can be released into the wild (under licence) in Wales and Scotland. But in England they still have to be kept in an enclosure. To be honest for the Ealing site that is probably for the best for now whilst they get used to what's around them as they are hemmed in by a major road and a commercial centre.
I imagine that's not an issue where you come from, Tanith!
Oh, that's wonderful news. Weirdly, beavers have been consistently popping up around me this fall. Like Earth Hope's article about the Yosemites, or coming up in my own research on wildlife ponds. And I was just reading the children's book Rewilding: Bringing Wildlife Back Where It Belongs for another project of mine that talked about introducing beavers back to England (although I don't think it was for this particular project... I'll have to check).