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Nature coalition delivers letter calling on Westminster Government to restore river corridors, with support from cross-party MPs

The Riverscapes Partnership, comprising of The Rivers Trust, National Trust, the Woodland Trust and Beaver Trust, has today delivered a letter to the Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street, signed by supportive MPs.

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Welsh Government announces legal protection for beavers in Wales

Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, announced yesterday plans to ensure beavers are recognised as a native species in Wales and legally protected from deliberate harm to them or their habitats, giving beavers the same legal protection afforded to other European Protected Species.

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Beaver swimming through pond with reeds on its head.

Beavers return to the Shropshire Hills in landmark river restoration project

Severn Rivers Trust, in collaboration with landowner Trevor Wheeler, the Environment Agency, Shropshire Wildlife Trust and the Shropshire Hills National Landscape Team, release a pair of beavers into a new enclosure in the Shropshire Hills, helping to restore natural processes in this precious upland landscape. Severn Rivers Trust, with input from key partners and the

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Historic first official wild beaver release marks new era for nature’s recovery in England

Going wild!  Historic first official wild beaver release marks new era for nature’s recovery in England In a landmark event for nature conservation, the National Trust has legally released the first two pairs of Eurasian beavers to live in the wild in Purbeck, Dorset.  This historic moment follows a groundbreaking policy announcement by Defra and

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