Eager beavers: rodents engineer Czech wetland project after years of human delay

Beavers accomplish long-stalled conservation plan on former army site, sparing crayfish and taxpayers alikeBeavers have saved Czech taxpayers $1.2m (?1m) by flooding a protected former army training site where a long-stalled dam was planned.Officials had hoped to build a barrier to shield the Klabava River and its population of critically endangered crayfish from sediment and acidic water spilling over from two nearby ponds. As a bonus it would turn a part of this protected area south of the capital, Prague, into a nature-rich wetland. Continue reading...