How Beavers Fully Revitalised This UK River

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[xShadowTigeressx]

My dad's office faces the river and a family of beavers lives right on the other bank. I love watching them.
They were hunted to extinction in Slovenia, but came back in the 90s from Croatia, on their own.
Lovely video, thank you.

[brianloughnane]

We have Beavers in the suburbs of Philadelphia. They are no big deal to live with. When they make a pond or lake it’s amazing to see how much wildlife (wood ducks, frogs, herons and turtles) they bring in.

[nancypine]

My mother's condo backed up to a beaver pond, and we could sometimes see them cutting down trees and hauling them away. They are protected in most New England states (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine) and are only trapped and moved when their dams threaten to flood roads. They are also being reintroduced to wilderness areas where they were trapped out of existence, since authorities are now realizing the enormous benefits beavers can bring.

[LordGertz]

In the Western US, it has been discovered that beavers actually mitigate drought effects. Ranchers were initially worried that beavers would "hog" the dwindling water supply and further prevent more downstream flow. During our long drought, some creeks nolonger flowed to their ends, and some became seasonal. But in beaver inhabited creeks, something else happened, they were not drying up, the areas were doing better than nearby creeks without beavers. Their ponds allowed more water to inter the ground water supply and changed the plants near the creeks, which in turn slowed evaporation of the creeks. Unfortunately, they are still seen as a hindrance by many not wanting them on their land, seeing it as a loss of property, while acknowledging that they are beneficial (just on someone else's land). Personally, I believe we should be helping species back into their historic ranges as that is how these biomes naturally coevolved and how the best work together.

[davidbeattie]

Beavers are a huge asset in areas prone to drought or flooding. By slowing the flow of local rivers they help ensure the aquifer is as full as possible, making the entire area more drought resistant. Their dams are natural flood control barriers. Great little eco-engineers.

[tadblackington]

Glad you made note of the frogs. At my home you can tell how active the beaver pond down the hill is by how much noise the frogs are making. If the beavers are actively maintaining the pond, the frogs can be almost deafening in the spring (its kind of thrilling).

[Triplaglol]

We got beavers again aswell in Flanders Belgium, it's amazing to see the works they perform. They live near 3 adjacent ponds and there is a small flowing creek around the ponds, it used to be the municipality that had to clean the creek to keep it from bogging up with dead leaves and branches. Now the beavers keep it clean and they actually dig it deeper so that it retains water for a longer period during dry summers. They do build dams on it but the water can still flow over it.

[mikeb]

It's astounding the size of trees they can fell. In northern Ontario, Canada I found a beaver dam 7 feet high and 100 feet across! The size of the pond they created was amazing and tons of wildlife were thriving in that new wetland.

[carolinejayes]

Beavers are wonderful create new habitats for fish, insects,birds,invertebrates.slow down rivers prevent floods, filter water, prevent droughts, with collection of water.They are natures engineers . We love them.!

[quinto]

Beavers, the ecosystem engineers... looks like they do a better job than we did in the past with water. Here in Germany they were also allowed to come back over the last 20 years or so. First in some forested areas with creeks, but now they also can be seen along middle sized rivers.

[therisinghero]

Beavers are one of my favorite animals, one moved in to a park near me and flooded one of the trails, even got to hear it smack the water before it dived, was really cool to see a creek turn into a pond/lake

[sebastianconrad]

Great posting. Big credit too to John Muir Trust for their protection work in Scotland where Beavers are also doing great things for the natural environment. 🌱

[Narnendil]

In the last few years, beavers have started to move back into to the river in my city in Sweden again. Beavers became extinct in Sweden in the 1800's, then reintroduced in parts of Sweden I believe in the 1920's. Finally, they are starting to come back to my area in Sweden. I hope I get to see one one day!

[claireandersongrahamkeller]

I can not believe how cute their smiling faces are! And, to think they do all this amazing eco-restoration work, and do not eat fish. I knew nothing about them. Thank you for sharing this video, it is wonderful. I hope to live near beavers when I love to Scotland in 2023.

[mypreciouspieceofcheese]

Beavers are truly amazing animals, being from Canada I have seen MASSIVE areas of land turned into ponds/lakes where other animals like turtles and snakes thrive! Great and informative video! Thanks!

[colleeneggertson]

We love watching the beavers in Calgary, Canada. We've seen them create interconnected ponds in Fish Creek Provincial Park that help reduce flooding.

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[sweetsweet]

Welcome back beavers. Crazee if we cant find a way to adapt so they can thrive again. I live in Singapore and we had otters show up in the central business district harbour about 10 years ago and the population is doing really well there. Lots of new families = very cool.

[paulclaassen]

Well done, LC. Very inspiring video. Regardless of where these beaver came from, I'm glad your authorities could be convinced to let these beaver live and breed along River Otter. Because of our ongoing twenty-two year (and counting) mega-drought in my home state of New Mexico, USA, we need more beaver in the mountains to hold back the rain water we do receive which in turn would support more plants and wildlife by keeping the streams running.