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After 400 years beavers are being allowed back in the England

Wild beavers release approved for England

The decision follows years of trials but some farmers are concerned there could be negative impacts.

www.bbc.co.uk

Beavers will be released into the wild in England after the government approved their reintroduction.

The decision follows years of trials and will see beavers make an officially approved return to waterways.

They've already been escaping from the trial sites so this might go badly. I assume you have to cover telegraph poles in metal to stop them munching through the phone lines but any rewilding is good news.

It says that Scotland had already been doing it and some will come from up there but Scotland is extremely sparsely populated compared to England so I expect them to ruin gardens in no time.

 

[EerieArcade]

 

[SJRB]

England's open border policy is a dam disaster.

 

[jason10mm]

Beavers are awesome but not very compatible with modern infrastructure. I read somewhere that a large chunk of the US was basically swampland due to all the beavers creating innumerable holding ponds, trapping massive amounts of water on land instead of being run-off. People today basically drain any swamp they can.

Beavers Are the Ultimate Ecosystem Engineers

The aquatic rodents have rebounded, and they're reshaping watersheds for the better

www.sierraclub.org

I have a beaver felt hat, it's awesome. I realize that is part of the problem here

 

[Hookshot]

Beavers are awesome but not very compatible with modern infrastructure. I read somewhere that a large chunk of the US was basically swampland due to all the beavers creating innumerable holding ponds, trapping massive amounts of water on land instead of being run-off. People today basically drain any swamp they can.

Beavers Are the Ultimate Ecosystem Engineers

The aquatic rodents have rebounded, and they're reshaping watersheds for the better

www.sierraclub.org

I have a beaver felt hat, it's awesome. I realize that is part of the problem here

Here they want the water held up in the rural bits so it won't keep flooding the urban areas down stream.

Also I can become one of those YouTube stars clearing blocked culverts.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Came here to post this. I am not disappoint.

 

[Tams]

After 400 years beavers are being allowed back in the England

Wild beavers release approved for England

The decision follows years of trials but some farmers are concerned there could be negative impacts.

www.bbc.co.uk

They've already been escaping from the trial sites so this might go badly. I assume you have to cover telegraph poles in metal to stop them munching through the phone lines but any rewilding is good news.

It says that Scotland had already been doing it and some will come from up there but Scotland is extremely sparsely populated compared to England so I expect them to ruin gardens in no time.

I was at a pub last night (in England) and got involved in a conversation with a nature conservationist. He said the beavers around here have finally had kits; it's just that until recently they hadn't realised they only had two male beavers (it's really hard to tell their sex)...

Apparently they have built jack shit but have happily chewed a lot.

 

[Hookshot]

have happily chewed a lot.

That's another problem, we aren't Canada, we don't have hundreds of miles of forests for them, stick them in some copse on a farm and they'll be wandering the fields in a year or two looking for more wood.

People will start chopping down other places just to dump it near beavers so their dams don't fall apart.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Isn't she hiding a cucumber under there though?

 

[Soodanim]

Here they want the water held up in the rural bits so it won't keep flooding the urban areas down stream.

Also I can become one of those YouTube stars clearing blocked culverts.

The English post 10 is born

Post 11?

 

[Alebrije]

Lets celebrate

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[Doom85]

Spoiler

(side note: holy shit, for some reason Gaf’s GIF tab has more options for Angry Beavers GIFs than possibly almost any show or movie I’ve seen when searching. I’m not complaining, honestly I think it sometimes doesn’t get mentioned enough when discussing Nickelodeon’s great series)

 

[Neff]

we love beavers here

 

[AJUMP23]

We can get some great pelts from their kids in a few years.

 

[Kamina]

 

[Ownage]

Say no to bush.

 

[The Lunch Legend]