Category: Beavers

  • Beaver update

    By The Bevis Trust In , | April 26, 2019

    After three years of answering increasingly silly questions from Natural Resources Wales about our Beaver re-introduction programme we have withdrawn the application. We spent £6,000 providing the veterinary Disease Risk Assessment which has been passed by the Chief Veterinary Officer but then NRW wanted us to undertake water quality surveys of the entire river catchment…

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  • Beavers in Wales

    By The Bevis Trust In , | April 25, 2019

    Bryony Coles, formerly Professor of Prehistory at the University of Exeter has just published an interesting book: Avanke, Bever, Castor: the story of Beavers in Wales. She examines the evidence for the presence of Beavers since the last Ice Age, as sub-fossil remains, in place names and myths, and in the written records since Geraldus…

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  • Scottish Beaver Consultation

    By The Bevis Trust In , , | February 14, 2018

    The Scottish Government are consulting on beavers in Scotland: https://consult.gov.scot/forestry/beavers-in-scotland/ Have your say.  

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  • Beavers: An American View

    By The Bevis Trust In , , | February 5, 2018

    A good podcast about beavers making a comeback in America: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-roughly-speaking-beavers-20180202-htmlstory.html

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  • Moonshadow

    By The Bevis Trust In , , | July 11, 2017

    My dog woke me at inordinately early this morning.   I sleepily let her out and couldn’t help but notice the full moon lighting the yard, and the rush of cool, sweet air meeting my face as the door opened. I went back to bed and relished the warm wrap of my duvet.    Sisal’s bark disappeared…

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  • Beavers

    By The Bevis Trust In , , , , , , , | July 10, 2017

    Nick has done a guest post on our friend Jim Barrington’s blog: https://jamesbarrington.wordpress.com/

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  • A Visitors View

    By The Bevis Trust In , , , , , , | July 5, 2017

    One of our lovely beaver watching guests has written about her experience on her blog. You can read it here: http://www.absolutenature.co.uk/watching-beavers-in-wales/     

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  • Sitting Tenants

    By The Bevis Trust In , , , , , , | July 4, 2017

    The young swallows have left the nest in the beaver hide and are sitting on the beams, plucking up courage for that first sally into the air. We were a bit worried that they wouldn’t manage to get any youngsters off this year.  

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  • Beaver Study Days

    By The Bevis Trust In , , , , , , | June 30, 2017

    We’ve had two beaver study days this week hosted by the Bevis Trust and Alicia Leow-Dyke from Wildlife Trusts Wales. On Tuesday we had 11 staff from Natural Resources Wales, two from Welsh Government and ten from local councils. On Wednesday we had 20 representatives from a variety of NGOs and Universities. It was a…

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  • Water Rail

    By The Bevis Trust In , , , , , , | June 19, 2017

    Sion has been busy camera trapping and has come across a species only seen here once before, many years ago – the water rail. We can only hope that the wetland habitats we are creating with the help of the beavers are bringing these shy and elusive birds to the farm. Drew

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