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Beaver Trust’s Fundraising Coordinator, Jolene Macnaughton, reflects on her motivations for working with beavers.

Eva Bishop says, ‘Despite its many interpretations, the fact remains that when we step back and give our rivers the space they deserve, society can benefit.’

Sam Gandy says, ‘the overall psychological benefits of beaver reintroduction likely exceed that of any other single species…’

Tom Bowser says, ‘The story of these waterways is now and will forever be changing. We are thrilled to have beavers here, and so grateful to Beaver Trust for helping us to save them.’

New CEO Sandra says, ‘Beaver Trust’s work gives me hope. It is making a real, immediate and practical difference to turning around the climate and ecological crises we face.’

Nick Acheson says, ‘Visiting the enclosure where these beavers live, last autumn, shortly after they arrived, was far more powerful an experience than I’d imagined.’

Communications Director Eva Bishop says, ‘As a science communicator and climate activist, I want others to hear how wrong the messaging is around climate policy’

Nick Wilson-Smith says, ‘Perhaps the reason why as a species, we are so attached to trees is that we are not so dissimilar ourselves.’

Major Andy Cox says, ‘If beavers chose emblems to represent their families, I would hope that at least one would choose a human soldier’

Josh Harris says, ‘Understanding where beavers are spreading across the country and creating effective beaver management systems is also important to our development of an English Beaver Strategy.’