Environmentalists says the mammals help protect against flooding, but landowners say they damage watercourses and trees
A wild beaver on the River Otter. Beavers have returned to Britain 400 years after being hunted to extinction – and the public generally welcomes their return.A wild beaver on the River Otter. Beavers have returned to Britain 400 years after being hunted to extinction – and the public generally welcomes their return., both controlled and unofficial, mean that this aquatic mammal is now again a part of the British landscape, returning 400 years after being wiped out by human hunting.
However, not everyone is so impressed – particularly landowners and foresters, who complain of damage to carefully regulated watercourses and tree felling.has been dramatically increased by beavers, but the same divide still exists. Only 25% of the general public found beavers annoying, but 75% of farming and forestry folk said beavers made them angry.
And in Britain, too, beavers are feeling this backlash from some of those that live closest to them and manage their river habitat. Government licences to remove them in England are being granted. Some animals are captured and relocated, while a smaller number are killed. The German scientists believe that the best way to protect beavers is to educate the landowners and the foresters, so that they realise their gains from their activity are greater than the losses.
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