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.

It's a bit early even for a Friday OP 🥂🍷🍸🍹but this a a cracking thread 🦫🪵

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.

WTAF have I just read? Are you on glue?

I live in Cornwall where the beavers have been released a few years now. People can go and see them at dusk. I have never ever heard of any beavers showing aggression.

They are doing great things for flood prevention in that particular valley.

The way we manage the countryside in this country isn't working OP. We can't simply try and crack down on it and expect it to submit. Did you see the programme last night about wild weather? They mentioned the 1952 Lynmouth Flood disaster. Victorian meddling on Exmoor, and attempts to try and impose control on those moors, plus the way they ignored the topography, resulted in the catastrophic flood and loss of life. This doesn't have anything to do with beavers particularly, but it's an example.

We need to work with the ecosystem not against it.

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.

Surely they were hunted for their fur?

I release one beaver every month into the wild. But inly after I've given them an intense martial art and knife skill training course so that they can fulfil not only their flooding potential but violence quota too.

I didn't think I was doing anything wrong.

Oh fuck it's a troll!

God my earnest post is embarrassing. Well that'll teach me.

Don't worry - this thread has made my week. I'm howling 😂

Oh my God, this thread has to be a wind-up! 😂😂😂

Are you the same poster who was concerned that wild European wolves would swim the Channel & retake England in the name of all wolfkind?

@MiddlingMarch you are one of them aren’t you you know one of them be kind to beaver peeps tut tut.

Nice one @PipMumsnet 😆

And that reason was for their meat as food and their fur for clothing. Our ancestors did not decide "to remove them from the eco system" - I'm sure they would have liked it if they had a never-ending supply of beavers. They didn't hunt them to extinction because they didn't like where they built their dams! 🙄

Every animal has the right to exist and survive.

Our ecosystem is not carefully balanced it’s totally fucked and our wildlife is heading down the pan at a rate of knots.
Beavers are ecosystem engineers that create habitats for lots of other wildlife and slow the flow of water.
that said they can have impacts and any good release scheme will have a plant to manage those.

I got put on the norty step by Pip a while ago, i forgive her now.

Am yow a yamyam?

@CatCaretaker it's a biscuit (like a jammy dodger I think?!)
Meaning is hard to explain, but basically "Have a biscuit and calm down!"

Noooooooooooooooooooo! NO WAY! 😱

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No.
I am a fuzzy overlord.

Nah - She would have said "You cor wosh your honds in a bison"

Has anyone mentioned serpents yet?

😂

But what about the wolves? They might get in on a lorry from France!

Surely humans could engineer such dams in a more consistent and reliable way than beavers?

And small boat beavers, can't trust the French

Wolves FFS!