pool, it was a bit goosebumpy. i bet! here we are, the beaver enclosure. i say to people, i am going into the bog on a daily basis. sadly, beavers don t have a great rep, but kim is hoping to change that. there is a lot of information out there about beavers, people don t understand that they are vegetarian, and so there is some conflict that they are going to eat all the fish from the rivers. as with anything that is new and change there is fear around that, but we are just trying to educate people that this is what beavers do in this landscape. beavers are just one additional tool in the current climate crisis. where you have beavers, you have increasing biodiversity. amazingly, kim has already seen a change to the reserve. they have only been in six weeks and already we re seeing in changes to the water channels, they are connecting up the pools, they have made a canal, and we are seeing lots of pathways like this when they are coming in and out and feeding on this stuff, on the wil
well, as we came out of the last lockdown we have a new addition to the nature reserve, and we now have a family of beavers. family of beavers! so explain to me what i m looking out on here. where would the beavers live? the beavers is an enclosure, that s just in this area here. they have seven acres of wet scrub to get their teeth into, and they are here to help us with reserve management. 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction for theirfur, meat and oil. this loss had a devastating impact on the land, and today ecologists are hoping their reintroduction can reverse this effect. and what was it like finally getting them here? to actually release them and see them swim into that pool, it was a bit goosebumpy. i bet! here we are, the beaver enclosure. i say to people, i am going into the bog on a daily basis.
well, as we came out of the last lockdown we have a new addition to the nature reserve, and we now have a family of beavers. family of beavers! so explain to me what i m looking out on here. where would the beavers live? the beavers are in an enclosure, that s just in this area here. they have seven acres of wet scrub to get their teeth into, and they are here to help us with reserve management. 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction for theirfur, meat and oil. this loss had a devastating impact on the land, and today ecologists are hoping their reintroduction can reverse this effect. and what was it like finally getting them here? to actually release them and see them swim into that pool, it was a bit goosebumpy. i bet! here we are, the beaver enclosure. i say to people, i am going into the bog on a daily basis. sadly, beavers don t have a great rep, but kim is hoping to change that.
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