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Restoring England’s rivers: Coalition of 49 organisations push for wild beaver reintroduction policy

A cross-sector group of 49 leading organisations including environmental, farming, water and business representatives, are today calling on the Labour Government to prioritise the reintroduction of beavers into the wild across England. The group, which includes Beaver Trust, Rewilding Britain, the Nature Friendly Farming Network, Anglian Water and Wild Justice co-director Chris Packham, have published […]

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Byrti the beaver begins new adventure

News / Emily Bowen

A collaborative effort between The Lost Gardens of Heligan, The Welsh Beaver Project, Beaver Trust and Natural England has led to the successful translocation of Byrti, a four-year-old beaver, to Cornwall.

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New insights on wild beaver populations in Kent and Devon

News / Emily Bowen

Outside of the River Otter and licensed enclosures, little was publically known about the distribution and population size of wild beavers in England until these two comprehensive surveys.

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Cornish Seal Sanctuary welcomes baby beavers for the first time in two years

News / Emily Bowen

Three beaver kits, who are siblings, have found a new home at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary where they will learn how to become adults in the Sanctuary’s beaver nursery.

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Beavers return to Poole Farm in Plymouth’s Green Minds project

News / Emily Bowen

A pair of Eurasian beavers have settled into the 6-hectare rewilding enclosure at Poole Farm. The male and female are unrelated orphans from the Tay catchment in Scotland. After spending time at the creche in Cornwall Seal Sanctuary, they were released into Poole Farm in November and have already begun transforming the landscape. The Green

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Beavers return to Lincolnshire for the first time in over 400 years

News / Emily Bowen

A pair of beavers have been released into a 70-acre enclosure at Wild Wrendale, a Lincolnshire Rewilding project – the first beavers in the county for over 400 years.

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People gathering for the release of beavers to Ealing

London welcomes urban beavers for first time

News / Emily Bowen

A family of Eurasian beavers has been released today at Paradise Fields, an area of woodland and wetlands in urban Greenford, in the London Borough of Ealing. The return of this native species is part of a collaborative project plan to boost wildlife, increase the urban landscape’s climate resilience and engage thousands of people in

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Ealing Beaver Project: the journey to bring beavers back to central London

Blogs / Emily Bowen

As a brand new ambassador for Beaver Trust, I thought it would be a good time to introduce myself and more excitingly the Ealing Beaver Project. My name’s Sean McCormack and I’m a qualified vet, conservationist and wildlife presenter. If my name doesn’t give it away, I’m Irish and grew up there as a nature-obsessed

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Beaver kit in the beaver pond in Enfield, London

Enfield baby beaver is another first for London

News / Emily Bowen

Enfield’s beaver reintroduction project has made history again after a baby ‘kit’ was spotted for the first time this summer. You can read more about the initial release at Forty Hall Farm here. Enfield Council launched London’s first beaver reintroduction programme in 2022, bringing beavers back to the capital for the first time in 400

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England

Restoring England’s rivers: Coalition of 49 organisations push for wild beaver reintroduction policy

Byrti the beaver begins new adventure

New insights on wild beaver populations in Kent and Devon

Cornish Seal Sanctuary welcomes baby beavers for the first time in two years

Beavers return to Poole Farm in Plymouth’s Green Minds project

Beavers return to Lincolnshire for the first time in over 400 years

London welcomes urban beavers for first time

Ealing Beaver Project: the journey to bring beavers back to central London

Enfield baby beaver is another first for London

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