A baby beaver has been photographed in London for the first time in 400 years, 18 months after an initiative began to reintroduce the species to the capital.

Enfield council began London’s beaver reintroduction programme last year as part of a wider rewilding and natural flood-management project.

The project could see the mammals inhabit a 10-acre area of parkland in Ealing, west London. People in London will be able to go on “beaver safaris” to see the creatures as part of the rewilding project.

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    11 months ago

    This makes perfect sense. Without being eligible for free health care, giving birth in London would be pretty unaffordable for many beavers. I imagine most would make the trip to Scotland for more affordable options as is evidenced by their population.

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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A baby beaver has been photographed in London for the first time in 400 years, 18 months after an initiative began to reintroduce the species to the capital.

    Enfield council began London’s beaver reintroduction programme last year as part of a wider rewilding and natural flood-management project.

    Rick Jewell, Enfield council’s cabinet member for the environment, told the Daily Telegraph: “The beavers’ hard work creating a natural wetland ecosystem will contribute to excellent flood defences, protecting the local area and hundreds of homes from flooding downstream to the south-east of the borough, while encouraging biodiversity.”

    In August it was reported that parts of a North Yorkshire estate are growing into a young woodland that is already becoming a new home for insects, rodents and birds of prey.

    Camera footage showed the six-week-old kit swimming to the family lodge with its mother in a large enclosure on the Holnicote Estate in Somerset where two Eurasian beavers had been released for the first time in the trust’s 125-year history.

    In July, a family of four was released on the National Trust’s Wallington estate in Northumberland, partly to help the landscape deal with climate breakdown.


    The original article contains 481 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!