Beaver politics
We have an ecosystem in steep decline.
Beavers have the potential to bring considerable benefits to our wet woodland and riparian ecosystems.
Salmon are not like some species of farm animal isolated from all external influences.
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Hide AdThey are wild creatures that have evolved complex interactions with their environment over millennia.
Beavers and salmon co-existed for all but a tiny part of that history and salmon have prospered less and less in a world dominated by human activity.
There is little evidence about salmon and beavers because in the countries where both abound it is, quite simply, a non-issue.
David Gibbon
Jordan Lane