It's hoped the dam-building creatures - dubbed 'nature's engineers' - will help tackle the climate and nature crises.

The SNP’s failure to punish the illegal release of beavers in Scotland has encouraged rogue rewilders to do the same with lynx, farmers have warned after four of the animal were captured in the ...

The recent resurgence of beavers in Sussex raises the question of their environmental impact but also their mysterious source. In 2022 ...

For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. This was an action that is ...

The reintroduction of beavers in parts of Scotland is a positive example of "rewilding", according to a new study. Prof Nigel Willby has written about the re-establishment of populations of ...

The good news is that modern conservation efforts have resulted in populations being re-established in Russia and many parts of Europe including France, Germany, and Scotland. Beavers are ...

“Scotland has a history of illicit guerrilla releases,” said Darragh Hare, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, citing releases of beavers and pine ...

Following trial reintroductions, Eurasian beavers were readmitted to Scotland last year, 400 years after being hunted to extinction in the UK. Co-author Dr Alan Law said: "We know lots about the ...

Beavers can be safely and enjoyably observed in enclosed reserves, most notably in Scotland and England. Although you may just be lucky enough to spot one in the wild, as there have been reports ...

Following the recent, reckless, illegal release of lynx in the Highlands and mindful of historical prosecution failings linked to illegal beaver releases in Tayside, NFU Scotland ’s president Martin ...

Darragh Hare is a member of advisory groups for projects in Scotland involving beavers and Scottish wildcats. He has received funding from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund at the University of ...