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

[LemaLemons]

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.

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?

Because we wanted to wear their skins?

You're thinking of specially trained Russian military Beavers.

Don’t be a prat , beavers don’t attack kids
yes they are wild creatures but they will bugger off pretty quick if they hear any type of human activity

was the Bison thread deleted?

We have beavers locally who migrated here from a release site further upstream. They are by the path round the river that the whole community uses. We are on the edge of a small city, so suburbia basically. Someone has planted a webcam and we get to see them from time to time posted on our local pages. Kids, dog walkers, cyclists etc all use the path and no-one has come to any harm yet, they've gnawed through a few trees/stumps and not managed to reroute the river. Been here a few years now. I think the OP is hysterical.

@hippychickmama I have the same question 🤣

Beavers can be violent 😂. Apparently I have beavers where I live, Ive never seen one, they are exceedingly timid and generally only come at dawn and dusk and quickly scarper if they know humans are around.
The only person I know who’s seen one got up very early when it was still dark and sat still as a rock waiting for the sun to rise and briefly saw one he said he barely moved and it was gone.
Does that sound like a violent animal? Round here you stand more chance of being attacked by a sheep.

We used to have woodland and river management as a normal part of life.

We are so lacking in this, beavers sound like a fucking great idea.

If they flood floodplains which have been floodplains for hundreds of years, my beef isn't with the beavers it's with the housing developer and planners that built the houses there despite all the locals going 'but it's a flood plain'.

(I can name examples of this lunacy).

The ecosystem is absolutely not carefully balanced now, what's your background in ecology?

I've been on this site a long time, and read some stuff in those years, but this is a whole new level of bonkers. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'll give you my first ever .

I am your fuzzy overlord.
( Not those jumped up beaver-types)

I live in a country with a beaver population of 130 000 (a fact I’d never thought I’d have a readon to look up) whereas there are 400 in the UK. I have never even seen a beaver and don’t feel threatened by them.

I'm Team Beaver. I'm currently getting daily updates on the antics of a rescued injured beaver called Agnes who's being nursed back to health by the wonderful folks at The Pipsqueakery. She's fab!

Of all the worries I have for my children, beavers aren’t one of them.

Is that the lesser known Bob Marley song ?

I'm fumin. Shaking and crying here. Triggered.

I have a had a bad Beaver experience. Ban the Beavers!

One escaped from a nearby facility and was seen on a local river. In my excitement I ventured to said river in the hope of spotting a wild beaver, slipped in some mud and broke my arm! It's totally the beavers fault, they are obviously highly dangerous and should be banned from the planet.

I'm with you OP, I think it's an utterly stupid idea, and is only happening because this area of policy has been taken over by nutters and zealots -

I have met several of them. Like any other extremist, if you try and ask questions or raise any doubts you are shouted down as being a denier.

One of the leading lights of this movement is an arrogant obsessive who clearly thinks that Britain was a much better place in the Middle Ages, when there were far fewer people and more animals.

Where they have been reintroduced already (Germany and Poland) they do millions of Euros worth of damage every year, and in Tierro del Fuego they caused terrible ecological devastation.

There are millions more people here now, with far greater levels of urbanisation and infrastructure than when they were last a feature, around 300 years ago, so the balance of nature is now a completely different ballgame. It is stupidly naive to think that they will just slot in unnoticed.

One beaver fan has already lost his pair because they don't like the place he wants them to settle in, you cannot control them once they have been released, and OP points out they will breed. This means they will either have to be culled or cause huge amounts of damage. In Scotland they have already damaged flood protection measures that had been put in place. They could potentially destroy precious habitats like chalk streams.

I despair at the folly, and all the bunny huggers believing that it's going to be lovely.

Meanwhile it's less than 8 weeks until the next XL bully attack, and 20 weeks until the next XL bully killing ....

I never expected to be advanced searching the word Bison on here 🤣

This is also the same poster who claimed that there was a danger of wolves re-introduced into Europe crossing the Channel........somehow......

And claimed to be part of a group that is systematically replacing all the water in all the lakes and ponds in the UK........but I can't remember Why

Delightfully batshit 😁

No point as her previous threads were all deleted by MNHQ 😥

This is the most batshit thread i’ve seen in a while… 😭😂

Oooh, this is my first time seeing a sunflower award. What is the significance?

I can tell you the beavers intentions.

Eat.
Shit
Make dams
Make more beavers

The end.