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If this project leads to better flood control and a more diverse habitat it will be most welcome.

The idea of natural ponds on rivers would provide a superb fry refuges and as they develop add a whole new branch to our sport.

We should all welcome this initiative.
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This was done in Essex a couple years back. A couple we’re introduced somewhere and I’m sure there was meant to be a tv programme made about it ?!?
They were once a native species (by all accounts :shrug: ), hunted to extinction, so I suppose they should be there and will hopefully be good for our waterways !?!

Do they eat otters by any chance ??? :laughs:
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Can't have a beaver thread without this-

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ChrisWales wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:35 -
Can't have a beaver thread without this-

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That scene was my immediate thought when I read the thread title!
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ChrisWales wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:35 -
Can't have a beaver thread without this-

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Mattjb wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:38 -
ChrisWales wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:35 -
Can't have a beaver thread without this-

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That scene was my immediate thought when I read the thread title!
This was mine.
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Rolling a round bale of silage into the ditch would aid flood prevention so let’s do that then ! Just who comes up with this rubbish, it’s to justify introducing a species to the thick public.
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Flipflopjoe wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:31 -
This was done in Essex a couple years back. A couple we’re introduced somewhere and I’m sure there was meant to be a tv programme made about it ?!?
They were once a native species (by all accounts :shrug: ), hunted to extinction, so I suppose they should be there and will hopefully be good for our waterways !?!

Do they eat otters by any chance ??? :laughs:
Otters will kill a Beaver, they won’t kill a round bale of silage, I say go with that.
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What kills otters- that's a question......
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Seriously saying Beavers were once resident is nonsense really as resident wolves would naturally keep numbers down. As Steve says it's just an excuse for do gooders/ tree huggers/ environ"MENTAL "lists to introduce a new species......
The grey squirrel wasn't a very good idea and yes I know where it was brought in from.
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Steve Le maitre wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 21:14 -
Flipflopjoe wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:31 -
This was done in Essex a couple years back. A couple we’re introduced somewhere and I’m sure there was meant to be a tv programme made about it ?!?
They were once a native species (by all accounts :shrug: ), hunted to extinction, so I suppose they should be there and will hopefully be good for our waterways !?!

Do they eat otters by any chance ??? :laughs:
Otters will kill a Beaver, they won’t kill a round bale of silage, I say go with that.
It was asked “tongue in cheek” tbh !
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Flipflopjoe wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 00:11 -
Steve Le maitre wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 21:14 -
Flipflopjoe wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 13:31 -
This was done in Essex a couple years back. A couple we’re introduced somewhere and I’m sure there was meant to be a tv programme made about it ?!?
They were once a native species (by all accounts :shrug: ), hunted to extinction, so I suppose they should be there and will hopefully be good for our waterways !?!

Do they eat otters by any chance ??? :laughs:
Otters will kill a Beaver, they won’t kill a round bale of silage, I say go with that.
It was asked “tongue in cheek” tbh !
Don’t worry i know it was :grin: For all it’s madness I still think the bale of silage would be better than the Beaver even though it’s a absolutely ridiculous idea. At least with the bale of silage you could control the flow of water where you want to, I doubt the Beaver understands flood management a bit like the people bringing these things in.
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JohnCopeman wrote: Wed Jan 15 2020 23:58 -
Seriously saying Beavers were once resident is nonsense really as resident wolves would naturally keep numbers down. As Steve says it's just an excuse for do gooders/ tree huggers/ environ"MENTAL "lists to introduce a new species......
The grey squirrel wasn't a very good idea and yes I know where it was brought in from.
The people who are introducing beavers are likely to be the same kind who DO want to reintroduce wolves and lynx. Then it'll be bears and bison and their holy grail - pelicans. Yes folks, pelicans.
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A search for pelican reintroduction then Dave brought me to an article where it lists pike in the top 5 most dangerous animals in Scotland!
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Slug wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 10:32 -
A search for pelican reintroduction then Dave brought me to an article where it lists pike in the top 5 most dangerous animals in Scotland!
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Who prints this s***e'...................still I get it though............there's going to be numpties' thick enough to believe it.

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Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
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Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
Yellowstone is a bit different to the UK though.
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davelumb wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 12:03 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
Yellowstone is a bit different to the UK though.
It is Dave. Just an example to show that reintroducing the wildlife isn't necessarily always a bad thing.
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Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 12:15 -
davelumb wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 12:03 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
Yellowstone is a bit different to the UK though.
It is Dave. Just an example to show that reintroducing the wildlife isn't necessarily always a bad thing.
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Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 12:15 -
davelumb wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 12:03 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
Yellowstone is a bit different to the UK though.
It is Dave. Just an example to show that reintroducing the wildlife isn't necessarily always a bad thing.
Agreed..... :thumbs: .......but with the ol' "BUT"

IF it's done intelligently and with a return to balance in mind, it "can" work, in some circumstances, also depending on "what" and "how" the "it" is being re-introduced into an environment where "it" has been absent for decades/centuries etc.

The other side of the coin is the utter crap-of-a-mess you can see when a complete b'-up is made with the "unofficial" or ill thought out reintroduction of a former "apex". Things quickly go south, as we have already seen in some areas.

There's some Beavers going in further west, as above, let's hope it's carefully monitored, rather have them than Tarkus'.

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I'd like to know if man put our weirs where, historically, beavers would have dammed :smile: :roll:
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I will ask them....
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Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
I seen it, it was really interesting. The park was basically on its knees as the deer population has boomed with no real natural predators left (or not enough), and they were destroying the place.
Enter the wolves, and I’m sure the changes were noticeable after only a couple years.
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Flipflopjoe wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 23:51 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
I seen it, it was really interesting. The park was basically on its knees as the deer population has boomed with no real natural predators left (or not enough), and they were destroying the place.
Enter the wolves, and I’m sure the changes were noticeable after only a couple years.


Exactly what is happening in the Scottish Highlands today where the red deep population said to number over 400,000 and is out of control in many areas with extensive damage to the habitat being caused by their browsing of young saplings.
The reintroduction of a pair of wolves would be a very useful trial, they coukd be tracked and monitored and remeoved if required.
The red deer of the highlands are also an introduced species whereas wolves had been present since the ice age.

Red deer were introduce in New Zealand, now there is a policy of total eradication, not only the red deer but all none native species. We should do something similar to the grey squirrel, we eleimanted the coypu using contractors, squirrels would just take a little longer.
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Mike J wrote: Fri Jan 17 2020 10:42 -
Flipflopjoe wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 23:51 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
I seen it, it was really interesting. The park was basically on its knees as the deer population has boomed with no real natural predators left (or not enough), and they were destroying the place.
Enter the wolves, and I’m sure the changes were noticeable after only a couple years.


Exactly what is happening in the Scottish Highlands today where the red deep population said to number over 400,000 and is out of control in many areas with extensive damage to the habitat being caused by their browsing of young saplings.
The reintroduction of a pair of wolves would be a very useful trial, they coukd be tracked and monitored and remeoved if required.
The red deer of the highlands are also an introduced species whereas wolves had been present since the ice age.

Red deer were introduce in New Zealand, now there is a policy of total eradication, not only the red deer but all none native species. We should do something similar to the grey squirrel, we eleimanted the coypu using contractors, squirrels would just take a little longer.
problem with grey squirrels Mike is they are now living in gardens, you will never get all the householders to shoot/trap them---and they have been dysneyfied so everyone who only watches the telly thinks they cute and cuddly critters
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Mike J wrote: Fri Jan 17 2020 10:42 -
Flipflopjoe wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 23:51 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
I seen it, it was really interesting. The park was basically on its knees as the deer population has boomed with no real natural predators left (or not enough), and they were destroying the place.
Enter the wolves, and I’m sure the changes were noticeable after only a couple years.


Exactly what is happening in the Scottish Highlands today where the red deep population said to number over 400,000 and is out of control in many areas with extensive damage to the habitat being caused by their browsing of young saplings.
The reintroduction of a pair of wolves would be a very useful trial, they coukd be tracked and monitored and remeoved if required.
The red deer of the highlands are also an introduced species whereas wolves had been present since the ice age.

Red deer were introduce in New Zealand, now there is a policy of total eradication, not only the red deer but all none native species. We should do something similar to the grey squirrel, we eleimanted the coypu using contractors, squirrels would just take a little longer.

Wouldn’t the wolves still opt for a easy meal of sheep or cow over the graft of chasing down a deer, I would think if there’s 400,000 and they are doing extensive damage they should be put in to the human food chain, think we are far too over populated to re introduce apex predators these days
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Mike J wrote: Fri Jan 17 2020 10:42 -
Flipflopjoe wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 23:51 -
Kev Berry wrote: Thu Jan 16 2020 11:52 -
Maybe some of you should look at what environmentally changed when they re introduced wolves back into Yellowstone Park.
To save you looking it up it was a move that saved the park, improved the flora and fauna, stopped land erosion and much more.
Look it up as it's a fantastic success story
I seen it, it was really interesting. The park was basically on its knees as the deer population has boomed with no real natural predators left (or not enough), and they were destroying the place.
Enter the wolves, and I’m sure the changes were noticeable after only a couple years.


Exactly what is happening in the Scottish Highlands today where the red deep population said to number over 400,000 and is out of control in many areas with extensive damage to the habitat being caused by their browsing of young saplings.
The reintroduction of a pair of wolves would be a very useful trial, they coukd be tracked and monitored and remeoved if required.
The red deer of the highlands are also an introduced species whereas wolves had been present since the ice age.

Red deer were introduce in New Zealand, now there is a policy of total eradication, not only the red deer but all none native species. We should do something similar to the grey squirrel, we eleimanted the coypu using contractors, squirrels would just take a little longer.
I never knew we had Coypu in the past Mike, how recently?

EDIT:

Just googled it, declared extinct in the UK as recently as 1989 :shrug:
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