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Returning beavers to Scotland’s lochs and rivers is the first formal mammal reintroduction in UK history, and today’s announcement has been called "a major success story for conservation ...
Beavers are already present on some of that land, but there must be space to rehome more. Scotland’s beavers need more than empty rhetoric, they need help. Advertisement. Hide Ad.
After beavers' reintroduction to Scotland, landowners have accused the native rodents of damaging the environment, causing floods, and worse, writes Louise Ramsay. But the public have rallied to the ...
Scotland now has more than 1,000 wild beavers, according to a new report, which found their numbers and the number of territories have doubled since 2017.
Efforts to restore the environment are revitalising the job market in the Cairngorms National Park and changing lives for the ...
A small number of Tayside beavers have been trapped and moved to Knapdale on Scotland’s west coast, and a few to England. But a survey by Scottish Natural Heritage shows that there are over 100,000 ...
Just months after the Government declared beavers a protected species in Scotland, 20 per cent of the Scottish population has been killed. On Wednesday, MSPs have a chance to vote to stop their ...
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Wrapped inside a brown hessian sack, the baby beaver wriggled as it was carried to an examination table but gave up the fight as a veterinarian deftly punched a microchip ...
Scotland’s natural heritage agency has reported a decrease in the number of beavers being destroyed as efforts to expand their population while controlling negative impacts gain momentum.