'Relocating beavers within Scotland has yet to become a normalised process that offers a viable alternative to killing'
‘WHY would you want to bring beavers to your farm?”
Amphibians now swim and breed in beaver-dug canals. Herons loiter there for the chance of spearing food. Insects feed on the sap of gnawed trees. Last winter, our first beaver dam held back water, and in summer droughts – while much of the country burned and waterways disappeared – the beavers dredged deep channels in their ponds, kept water within them, and kept thousands of species alive.
The strategy should make good on Biodiversity Minister Lorna Slater’s admirable desire to actively expand Scotland’s beaver population, and assist those people and organisations seeking to move them from areas where they are unwanted to new parts of the country where they are. For those hoping to reverse the nature crisis and tackle climate breakdown through nature-based solutions, Scotland’s beaver strategy is a cause for celebration.
And yet my mind still returns to that question: “Why would you want to bring beavers to your farm?” And I realise that in other respects, I am not happy. FOR beavers to reach those places, for the new strategy to work, and for helping Scotland become a rewilding nation that works with nature instead of against it, we need those who manage the land and are entrusted with caring for nature to step up.
With polling showing that 62% of Scots want to see beavers reintroduced on a much wider scale, and with calls on the monarchy to practice what it preaches on nature restoration, when might we see beavers translocated to the Crown Estates’ 37,000 hectares?
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