Wessex Water responds after 'tens' of swimmers at Warleigh Weir fall ill bristolpost.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bristolpost.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Female beaver washing. Picture: James Burland/Dorset Wildlife Trust Beavers have returned to Dorset after a 400 year absence. On Monday, February 8 a male and a female beaver were released into an enclosed site in west Dorset. This landmark project led by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is the first of its kind for the county and welcomes beavers back to Dorset for the first time in more than 400 years. The beavers have been relocated from Scotland to Dorset. Their new home, a suitably large site of freshwater habitat, is not accessible to the public. However, monitoring of the enclosure will provide rare, close-up video and photo footage of the charismatic creatures as they explore, make themselves at home and start to influence the landscape.