Beavers bring wetlands back to the UK | WILD HOPE

Ron: Beavers might do wonders for many areas in Australia in future provided that plenty of softwood trees could be planted alongside its semi-perennial creek beds.

The surprise return of beavers to the British countryside brings benefits and controversy for humans and wildlife alike. The work of these famously busy rodents increases local biodiversity, reduces storm-induced flooding, and restores wilderness to a highly manicured landscape. It also injects some chaos into the lives of the beavers’ human neighbors. Can the British beavers regain their former glory as powerful ecosystem engineers, or is their new home too domesticated to return to the wild?

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Ron: There will be plenty of areas for Beavers to live in and plenty of work for them to do after the coming changes. They will help to restore degraded, desiccated countryside in many lands.