Conservation
The Return of the Beaver
Hunted almost to oblivion and now cautiously welcomed back, the beaver is reshaping rivers and rewriting our ideas about how to repair a damaged landscape.
Conservation from across the animal world.
Hunted almost to oblivion and now cautiously welcomed back, the beaver is reshaping rivers and rewriting our ideas about how to repair a damaged landscape.
When a species dwindles to its final few, conservationists face an agonising race against extinction, armed with science, stubbornness and sometimes the slenderest of hopes.
As wild places are carved into ever smaller islands, the thin strips of land that connect them may decide whether whole populations live or die.