Beavers released in Forest of Dean as solution to flooding

Hope is that pair of beavers build dams that help hold back water and improve biodiversityFour hundred years after the beaver was hunted to extinction in the UK, two of the mammals are being reintroduced on to government land in an English forest as part of a scheme to assess whether they could be a solution to flooding. Two Eurasian beavers were being released on Tuesday into their new lodge within a large penned-off section of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. Continue reading...