After being hunted to extinction in England, Cumbria welcomed back a pair of beavers into Lowther Estate earlier in the year. Since then the pair have nibbled their way through some large trees getting ready for winter and for that all important mating season. The twosome have been working as a team and building up a shared food store for the winter months. Glen the male and Dragonfly the female, have been released into a 27-acre enclosure at Lowther Estate near Penrith, for a five-year scientific trial. The aim is to obtain data on the impact of beavers in an upland environment, in particular on a stream in a farmed landscape.