Wildlife Trust Beaver Projects

The Wildlife Trust movement supports the restoration of beavers as a keystone species, and acknowledges the wider benefits that beavers have for people and wildlife - backed by independent scientific evidence. Here are some of the projects that the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) are supporting:

Wild releases - the Scottish Beaver Trial and River Otter Beaver Trial.

Other Beaver recovery projects supported by the Wildlife Trusts

Dorset Beaver Project

Cornwall Beaver Project

    Frog spawn in Beaver pond
    Frog spawn in Beaver pond © Nick Upton
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