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To want to understand why they are re-releasing Beavers?

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LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:40

https://beavertrust.org/historic-first-official-wild-beaver-release-in-england/#:~:text=News%20%26%20blogs-,Historic%20first%20official%20wild%20beaver%20release%20marks,for%20nature's%20recovery%20in%20England&text=In%20a%20landmark%20event%20for,the%20wild%20in%20Purbeck%2C%20Dorset.

beavers being rereleased in the uk - why? They are territorial animals and don’t really have a place in our carefully balanced ecosystem.

Historic first official wild beaver release marks new era for nature’s recovery in England - Beaver Trust

Going wild!  Historic first official wild beaver release marks new era for nature’s recovery in England In a landmark event for nature conservation, the National Trust has legally released the first two pairs of Eurasian beavers to live in the wild in...

https://beavertrust.org/historic-first-official-wild-beaver-release-in-england#:~:text=News%20%26%20blogs-,Historic%20first%20official%20wild%20beaver%20release%20marks,for%20nature's%20recovery%20in%20England&text=In%20a%20landmark%20event%20for,the%20wild%20in%20Purbeck%2C%20Dorset.

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Nonametonight · 07/03/2025 16:07

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:53

This is the part of the problem specifically the fact that the beavers were allegedly run out of this country and hunted to extinction. There is a reason our ancestors decided to remove them from the eco system and it is probably a good idea not to cause the same problem once again.

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Because we wanted to wear their skins?

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 07/03/2025 16:03

We have beavers in London. I’ve heard on good authority they are in league with the feral ring neck parakeets. Sadiq Khan better watch out… that’s all I am prepared to say…

YouveGotAFastCar · 07/03/2025 16:03

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 15:11

And what about the beaver on child violence risks?

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If we hadn’t hunted beavers to extinction - for their fur, not because we feared they’d cause the end of the world - then children and beavers would have grown up together?

And children grow up in plenty of places with far more dangerous species, like dogs, crocodiles, hippos…

Theres a strong irony in saying you don’t like people “playing God”, when you’re heavily opposed to entrusting species that should have still been here. Surely you are the one playing God, by deciding that they shouldn’t be reintroduced?

Velmy · 07/03/2025 16:02

I wish my other half showed as keen an interest in beaver as the OP 😭

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 16:01

stargirl1701 · 07/03/2025 15:22

Great news! Let's go for Lynx next.

Oh please, no! There's a massive thread from a woman who doesn't want her DH to wear lynx, but cologne, and goes aftershave shopping with her son!!

KrisAkabusi · 07/03/2025 16:01

NotCamping · 07/03/2025 14:46

You’re the buffalo poster aren’t you?

Has to be the same person. And she did a similar thing the week before that about beavers as well.

newnamesix · 07/03/2025 15:58

I thought this was going to be about Brazilian waxing going out of fashion.

I think they might be out to exact revenge for the earlier extinction

Stripeysuitcase · 07/03/2025 15:58

This has to be a windup 😂 thanks for the entertainment op!

I'm also an ecologist and delighted that this is happening, go team beaver!

Porcuporpoise · 07/03/2025 15:57

Beavers have been living wild in Kent since the 1960s. Imo this explains a lot.

Howmanycatsistoomany · 07/03/2025 15:56

Mingenious · 07/03/2025 14:52

If your kids are out harassing beavers then then they deserve to have their legs gnawed off and used to make dams.

😂😂

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 15:56

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:57

You cannot work with a force that can’t be controlled. Beavers are not subject to negotiation and cannot be sit down and spoken to. How do you propose we work with the beavers when they are just going to willy-nilly make dams wherever they see fit no matter the consequences??

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Who on earth is 'working' ith beavers. Bet those bastards take loads of sick days and keep gnawing through your desk's legs

ExpressCheckout · 07/03/2025 15:55

What out for the squirrels and magpies OP, they're violent too 😂

PsychoHotSauce · 07/03/2025 15:54

It was bison, not buffalo, that were released near me in 2022 and apparently the OP was posting moaning about it then.

I can confirm there have been no ill effects whatsoever. We now have two baby bison in the herd Smile

steff13 · 07/03/2025 15:54

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 15:11

And what about the beaver on child violence risks?

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Anecdotal, but there are lots of beavers in my state, we've seen them countless times, and we've never experienced any kind of violence.

MrsSunshine2b · 07/03/2025 15:53

You seem to be confusing beavers with highly educated historians who bear grudges and crave power. They do not have intentions and are not conscious of their history in the UK, they are just beavers who will do beaver things because that is what beavers do.

The Wikipedia page you linked to references a handful of attacks mostly by rabid beavers. Rabies is extinct in the UK.

Beavers are not setting out to kill our children and take our land in revenge for past injustices against beaver-kind.

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 15:53

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:52

You can’t guess what the beavers intentions are. The beavers might not create dams like you would like them to create and might create dams specifically to retake land that isn’t theirs anymore.

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Evil little fuckers

Chemenger · 07/03/2025 15:53

KimberleyClark · 07/03/2025 15:52

David Archer is that you?

I was just about to say this.

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 15:52

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:50

Beavers are not proven to create wetland where you want it. Beavers might decide to make the site of your home into their wetland and you could wake up day after day and beavers have rerouted water over your property and garden. And when you try and stop it coming from one way then you might get that dam and bust it but the next morning another set of beavers might create a wetland from another direction.

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Wes Anderson's latest film Attack of the killer beavers.
'Armed with chainsaws and a sense of their own importance, a group of recently re-introduced beavers turn feral after being bitten by something terrifying 'outside' and vow to attack humans and re-route rivers. Be afraid, very afraid.
Even Putin is petrified of Beavers (citation needed...)

KimberleyClark · 07/03/2025 15:52

David Archer is that you?

HermioneWeasley · 07/03/2025 15:51

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 15:04

Why are you treating the beavers as if they would be willing appointments to a government that hunted them to the point of extinction and then reintroduced them? Are you trying to say this is like WW2 where the USA nuked the Japanese and then spent decades after making them their little minions? I don’t think it’s like that at all and I think it’s a stupid analogy because why would the beavers even want to help? And why is that the common opinion? Does nobody think that actually beavers just won’t care at all about anything like that and just make them wherever it is they want?

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Are you feeling quite well?

mimbleandlittlemy · 07/03/2025 15:50

@ItShouldntHappenToMeYet - don't remind the OP of Lion/Witch/Wardrobe! @LemaLemons worst nightmare come true: talking beavers that actually could sit down and make their demands known.😆

Pwincessb · 07/03/2025 15:48

This is the best thread I've read for a while. I love the idea of beavers having a hidden agenda and are coming back for vengeance after we almost hunted them to extinction. If that is there plan I'm 100% team beaver and welcome our fuzzy overlords

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 15:47

LemaLemons · 07/03/2025 14:48

The eco system is carefully balanced now I mean and adding in beavers could effect the balance as we know it at the moment

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The clue is in the phrase, re-introduced. We had beavers in this country until re-coursing of rivers/streams and destruction of their habitat allmost wiped them out.
Beavers were a big part of thexLion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Do you think CS Lewis made their prescence in the UK up?
And your assertion that kids havexa fear of playing outsidexand are further at risk from attacking beavers... they are highly private creatures, so the chances of a scardy-cat seeing one ifcas rare as hen's teeth

glacancalman · 07/03/2025 15:45

I've heard it all now. We can't let our kids play out in case they get attacked by a beaver 😁.

Don't move to the Highlands OP, those wretched sea eagles will swoop down and fly off with your kids.

MyDadLovedBlondieToo · 07/03/2025 15:44

Tiredofallthis101 · 07/03/2025 15:42

Right now I'm hoping the beavers knaw their way through somewhere that floods the building with Mumsnet's servers in, so the site goes down and I don't have to read any more nonsense like this. Jeez.

Amazing news for you - you have free will! Don’t read things you don’t want to, go and be free! Like a released beaver…