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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081121/tuk-plan-to-reintroduce-beavers-to-wild-6323e80.html
HillBill
21-11-2008, 10:54
I believe that on a well populated island like ours they could cause havoc with their dams. Blocking streams/rivers and disrupting water supplies for agriculture/livestock. It would be good to see them back though. They would create more bio-diversity in the regions they were introduced which can only be a good thing.
European beavers are not big dam builders
HillBill
21-11-2008, 12:52
Didnt know that. Thanks for the info
Treemonk
21-11-2008, 13:04
Much of the current flooding problems we are seeing are down to a mix of the increasing intensity of weather events and the poor state of our watersheds.
There is increasing realisation that restoring river meanders, pools, floodplain woodlands etc will de-synchronise watercourses and decrease the flashiness of catchments.
Beavers are part of this sort of restoration. Far from causing havoc, beavers could help reduce it!
Graham_S
21-11-2008, 13:08
there's good eating on one of those things ;)
Mylobushman
25-11-2008, 02:25
Wow - you can take our Canadian beaver over here. We have over population with some of them here in Ontario - its amazing how beavers can shape landscape. Its the animal on our 5 cent coin!