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DEFRA consultation on on approach to beaver reintroduction and management in England
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<blockquote data-quote="wanton dwarf" data-source="post: 7794064" data-attributes="member: 5903"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dw.com/en/beavers-on-the-rampage/a-37401996[/URL]</p><p></p><p><strong>Beaver-made flooding</strong></p><p></p><p>Some riverside residents, however, don't have to go out looking for traces of beaver activity. Just as manmade dams can be disaster for the habitat of other animals, so some Germans have found their own homes flooded by beaver-made reservoirs.</p><p></p><p>One homeowner who found the foundations of his house in German city of Jülich threatened by rising water levels from a beaver dam told local broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk: <strong>"They don’t belong here in the middle of the city. We’re not an open-air zoo."</strong></p><p></p><p>Nabu says conflict usually occurs when farms or gardens extend right up to the river bank or where the natural floodplain is altered.</p><p></p><p>"The beavers aren’t aware of property ownership. They see the riverbank as a place they can dig their burrow," says Barthel. "They see tasty food in fields or orchards. So it can happen that a tractor breaks a beaver lodge or a beaver fells a favorite apple tree."</p><p></p><p>She adds that beavers have been accused of burrowing into dams and dikes, disrupting manmade flood defences, but says there are well-practiced defenses against this kind of damage.</p><p></p><p><strong>"If beavers are pilloried by politicians, it’s primarily to distract from their own failures in flood prevention," says Barthel.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>So don't expect any sign of responsibility from the Environmental Groups. Personally I dearly hope to meet one of these "Enlightened" people ..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wanton dwarf, post: 7794064, member: 5903"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dw.com/en/beavers-on-the-rampage/a-37401996[/URL] [B]Beaver-made flooding[/B] Some riverside residents, however, don't have to go out looking for traces of beaver activity. Just as manmade dams can be disaster for the habitat of other animals, so some Germans have found their own homes flooded by beaver-made reservoirs. One homeowner who found the foundations of his house in German city of Jülich threatened by rising water levels from a beaver dam told local broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk: [B]"They don’t belong here in the middle of the city. We’re not an open-air zoo."[/B] Nabu says conflict usually occurs when farms or gardens extend right up to the river bank or where the natural floodplain is altered. "The beavers aren’t aware of property ownership. They see the riverbank as a place they can dig their burrow," says Barthel. "They see tasty food in fields or orchards. So it can happen that a tractor breaks a beaver lodge or a beaver fells a favorite apple tree." She adds that beavers have been accused of burrowing into dams and dikes, disrupting manmade flood defences, but says there are well-practiced defenses against this kind of damage. [B]"If beavers are pilloried by politicians, it’s primarily to distract from their own failures in flood prevention," says Barthel.[/B] So don't expect any sign of responsibility from the Environmental Groups. Personally I dearly hope to meet one of these "Enlightened" people .. [/QUOTE]
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