Happy #InternationalBeaverDay
Beaver Trust is a registered charity dedicated to restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes.
Find out more about our work and this incredible keystone species on our website 👇
https://beavertrust.org/
#RestoringBeavers #RegeneratingLandscapes #Mammals
Becoming beaver ready!
Yesterday, we released guidance in collaboration with The Wildlife Trusts setting out the support and funding needed in England to ensure farmers, landowners and beavers can thrive together.
Read more, and find the guidance here👇
tinyurl.com/4uwh6dt2
To start Series 9 of #TheLodgeCast #podcast, we head to Argaty Red Kites with Tom Bowser & our new co-host, Alana Skilbeck 🪁
As the first private landowner in Scotland to release beavers into the wild, Tom has had a front-row seat to their return.
🎧 Listen now
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A willow tree partially felled by the river, still connected to the stump.
A coppiced Willow laying on the river bank.
Beavers dont kill trees, they coppice them. Here are two trees that have been beavered at Bathampton Meadows (just down the river from Warleigh Nature Reserve) that people have been worried were “killed” that are both still growing happily. Let’s talk about it.
New episodes every Wednesday starting tomorrow, 1 April.
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Hosts Emily Bowen and Alana Skilbeck dive in with expert guests:
🎙️ Tom Bowser, Argaty Red Kites
🎙️ Oly Armstrong, Heart of Argyll Wildlife Organisation
🎙️ Jen of Avon Wildlife Trust and Bevis Watts
🎙️ Beaver Trust’s Ben Morris and James Dilnot of River Stour IDB
What does living with beavers look like on longer time scales?
#TheLodgeCast is back with a new series connecting with the pioneers who have gone beyond the trial period and learning from communities that have been coexisting with beavers for over five years.
We’re looking for a new Policy Officer to join our team, to help Beaver Trust influence national policies and strategies that enable the restoration of beavers, rivers and wetlands.
📅 Applications close 9am, Monday 20th April 2026
👉 https://beavertrust.org/our-mission/vacancies/
You can read the recent paper on beavers and breeding amphibians in North America here
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We’re at the very early stages of exploring a British-wide science project with partners to better understand these relationships between beavers and amphibians. But it’s already clear that when beavers engineer landscapes for themselves, amphibians thrive. 5/6
A recent study in the US found beaver ponds were home to more breeding amphibians than those with human made “beaver dam analogues”. Both habitats had more breeding amphibians than un-dammed control sites, showing the importance of diverse habitats and beavers. 4/6
Beaver canals create shallow, sheltered edges that are ideal for spawning, while the wider wetland conditions help tadpoles thrive. A canal may be the perfect in-between habitat, deep enough to reduce predation from above, but shallow enough to limit threats from below. 3/6
These canals become vital lifelines for amphibians. They act as safe movement corridors, helping young amphibians disperse while linking up previously isolated ponds and wetlands. That extra connectivity can strengthen populations and improve resilience. 2/6
Beavers dig canals as they rely on water for protection, and these channels let them travel further into the landscape, acting as quick escape routes from predators. They can also float heavy branches through canals, saving energy and accessing food up to 100 metres away. 1/6
As beavers return, we’re re-learning how to co-exist. One challenge we face is the risk of conflict with existing land management practices, but research shows this can be reduced by giving rivers more space.
Ask your Holyrood candidates to reform rural payments to support river corridors. 👇
The return of beavers to the Cairngorms National Park has been led by @cairngormsnews.bsky.social, working closely with partners, land managers, and local communities. 4/4
Naturally shy and usually active at dawn and dusk, beavers are expected to avoid interaction with people. However, we ask you to remember that they are sensitive wild animals. While they may share our spaces, it’s crucial to give them the respect and quiet they need. 3/4
Across Europe, it is common for beavers to inhabit freshwater systems popular for human recreational activities, where their engineering enhances biodiversity and creates engaging natural spaces for people to enjoy. 2/4
Yesterday, we were thrilled to release a pair of beavers into Forestry and Land Scotland’s Loch Morlich. This is an exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, under licence from @naturescot.bsky.social, realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy. 1/4
Watch Dr Malison’s review of the literature on fish and beaver interactions at the bottom of this page:
beavertrust.org/our-work/bea...
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Watch the full documentary Balancing the Scales, for FREE online now and explore the complex relationship between beavers and migratory fish:
youtu.be/z4yEJuVja08?...
Balancing The Scales is a Beaver Trust film, directed and produced by Nina Constable and funded by The European Nature Trust. 2/4
Dr Rachel Malison from the University of Montana's @umflbs.bsky.social explains how beaver dams influence habitat, food resources, growth and movement of juvenile Atlantic salmon and trout across three paired beaver-dammed and beaver-free tributaries of key salmon rivers in central Norway. 1/4
Thank you Nicola, we're glad you enjoyed the talk! 🦫
a beaver in shallow water holding a stick between front paws and gnawing on it. Text reads: Beavers across Britain: an opportunity to gain valuable experience in real-world management
Beavers are no longer a future possibility – they’re shaping rivers & catchments across Britain.
For those in conservation, land management & environmental policy, the focus is now on working alongside them.
Find out more about #BeaversAcrossBritain from @beavertrust.org 👇
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This 2026 paper, published on @britishbirds.bsky.social, suggests that the wetlands created by beavers could help provide the kind of dynamic habitats that these birds rely on, which is supported by studies in Finland. 2/2
Read the abstract 👇
britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
Could beavers help create habitat for one of Britain’s rarest breeding birds? 🦫
While thousands of green sandpipers migrate across the UK each year, fewer than ten pairs are thought to breed here. 1/2
We might be a touch biased, but we think adding beavers to banknotes is an excellent idea 🦫
Poster submissions for Beavers Across Britain close soon! This is the last chance to share your research. Submissions close on 15th March. Organised by Beaver Trust, supported by Cairngorms National Park and Forestry England 👇
https://tinyurl.com/2rnjcefw
#BeaversAcrossBritain #Mammals
How exciting! 🦫
