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

In Britain, there have also been illicit reintroductions of smaller mammals, as well as insects and wildflowers that are much easier and cheaper to obtain, transport and release. Wildflower seeds and ...

The number of beavers in Scotland has more than doubled in the last three years, new figures reveal. Natural environment agency NatureScot says there are now about 1,000 of the animals.

Beavers could make a “historic” return to Glen Affric in spring next year, it has been announced. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has applied to nature agency NatureScot for permission to ...

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 ...

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 ...