That’s the amazing thing.”The return of beavers to Britain half a millennium after we hunted them to extinction is both thrilling and controversial. Beavers can live in Britain but can the British live with beavers? But it’s the beavers’ water works that have really struck those studying the site in west Devon. Beavers won’t naturally inhabit these locations unless all the better territory downstream is occupied by other beavers. “If you’re trying to protect people from flooding downstream, we’ve got to have this type of dam system in the headwaters.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 15:33 UTC