In Scotland, beaver territories, which vary in size but typically feature around four animals, have increased steadily — from 39 in 2012 to 251 in 2020-21, according to an official report.

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.

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 ...

Beavers are again proving themselves to be nature's unsung heroes. If you're enjoying freshwater swimming or fishing in ...

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 ...

Efforts to restore the environment are revitalising the job market in the Cairngorms National Park and changing lives for the ...

The reintroduction of lost species is also a key talking point when it comes to rewilding Scotland. Beavers, which were hunted to extinction during the 16th century, have been brought back, with ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...