Loch Dunmore - signs of #beavers but no sightings (not surprisingly in the noon sunshine). Lovely day here. There’s also a disappointing amount of litter (fencing, a tv aerial and other junk). I always find it so hard to understand why some people treat nature as a big rubbish bin.
Dang, Little Whittle missed me! Two weeks away and I spot it in the creek on the morning ramble. It sees us and swims right up. My fav beaver. They were active today, others munching on fresh reed grass. #Hiking #Beavers #GetOutside.
"Beavers reintroduced to southwest Oregon to restore wetlands" 
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/23/beavers-return-vesper-meadow/
@CelloMomOnCars
I'm all for #scientist but the way we report science make it sound like scientist are the last to know stuff.
Mother nature has figured all this out millions of years ago. We do need to pay attention to #gaia.
How about; Scientist have figured out one of many roles that #beavers and #beaverDam play in our carefully balanced #ecoSystem.
@NatureMC @dan613 @FantasticalEconomics @nspugh In #CzechRepublic, beavers just built a dam that humans had planned on since 2018: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic +
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site
Couple pics of my little buddy Whittle chewing on fresh reed canary grass, an invasive species that the beavers nonetheless eat when it's new and green. Saw our first warbler of the season but it would not sit still for photos. #Hiking #Beavers #GetOutside
@nspugh
In #Czechia near #Brdy a 1,2 million #renaturation project was planned. but after years of planning when the project was about to start, they discovered that #Beavers had already done all the work!
@punissuer
My parents took their kids on many nature walks and hikes when we were growing up which is where my love of nature and rambling outdoor walks comes from.
One time we walked by a dried-up old pond and saw an abandoned beaver’s lodge there.
I still think about that lodge sometimes and hope the beavers who lived there built wonderful new homes in nearby bodies of water.
Beavers were active from the get-go on the morning ramble, pretty sure the cute one is my fav Little Whittle. Lake is up about half-foot since mid-February, rewatering some of the wetlands, and they’re using that habitat. #Hiking #Walking #Beavers #GetOutside
"I was here." - Beaver 
Very clear evidence of #beavers activity. You can see their many chew marks on this stump. This is in a small #Saanich community park, stewarded by citizens who live beside little Calvert Lake.
Access to trails is off of Prospect Lake Rd & easy to miss if you're not paying close attention. Only room for 2 cars to park on roadside pullouts. The trails aren't very well maintained & you can easily get lost around them. I've ended up in someone's backyard once, trying to hike back out. Wear long pants because there's a lot of places you have to bushwhack through along tiny footpaths. Lots of salal, Oregon grape, lady ferns (excellent for fiddleheads harvesting) & mushrooms.
Workshop at Knepp: "..learn about beaver ecology and behaviour, and the effects these ecosystem engineers have on landscapes, watercourses and biodiversity." https://knepp.co.uk/view/safaris/beaver-workshop/
#ReWilding #SolarPunkSunday #RestoreWetlands #Wetlands #BeaversForBiodiversity #Beavers #Knepp
Czechia's €1m dam built for free by beavers: Here's where else they're doing good work.
A family of beavers made global headlines earlier this year when they built a dam exactly where authorities had been planning one in Czechia, saving taxpayers around €1.2 million.
Beavers are working wonders across Europe. Is the UK finally realising their potential?
#Rewilding #GoodNews about #Beavers
Beavers are back, baby !
"England FINALLY Approves Wild Beaver Releases - dam good news" [9:14 min]
by Leave Curious [Feb 28, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn86rv6TWY8
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
"Chris Jones, a beef farmer, is very proud of his beavers. “They are just extraordinary,” he says.
Since releasing a couple into an enclosure on his Cornwall farm in 2017, he says they have saved it from drought, prevented flooding in the nearby village, boosted the local economy and even improved oyster beds in Falmouth Bay"
#Beavers #Wildlife #Environment #Farming #Flooding #Biodiversity #Cornwall
#Beavers - allowed back in #England for the first time in centuries (I hope their working visas are up to date)
Chris Jones, a beef farmer, is very proud of his beavers. “They are just extraordinary,” he says.
Since releasing a couple into an enclosure on his #Cornwall farm in 2017, he says they have saved it from drought, prevented flooding in the nearby village, boosted the local economy and even improved oyster beds in Falmouth Bay.
Bold claims but..
Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries | Conservation | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/beavers-released-english-waterways-government-licence
"Beavers create useful habitats for wildlife and reduce flooding by breaking up waterways, slowing water flow and creating still pools."
" The industrious animals recently saved the Czech government £1m by building a dam."
Good!
Builder Beavers
Inspired by a trip to the Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Loch of the Lowes in Dunkeld, Perthshire.
Loved seeing those gnawed tree stumps!
A Chicago environmental nonprofit, Urban Rivers, is asking for help in naming a "remarkably rotund" beaver that lives on the bank of the Chicago River. The "extra spherical" rodent is believed to be pregnant, and the group's volunteer coordinator Stephen Meyer says that his team hasn't been able to weigh her, but she can be heard on camera waddling across the dock and cracking ice beneath her paws, according to @BlockClubCh. Here are some of the names suggested by people on Reddit. Which gets your vote? Tell us in the comments if you have a better idea, and submit it to Urban Rivers at the second link.
