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DEFRA consultation on on approach to beaver reintroduction and management in England
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<blockquote data-quote="holwellcourtfarm" data-source="post: 7794441" data-attributes="member: 42914"><p>The argument is that they:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Create Natural Flood Management by felling trees across rivers and creating ponded areas</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Increase diversity of hydrology and ecology by creating new wetland areas thus providing more habitats for plants and animals that need those habitats</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Achieve the above at no cost unlike humans moving in to do it</li> </ul><p>The counter argument is that:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Our landscape has developed in the absence of beavers for 2 centuries and isn't ready for them now</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Their activities are not delivered in targeted locations and so risk unacceptable impacts (flooding urban areas and good farmland)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Landowners are faced with the costs of managing those unwanted impacts without choice</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sometimes their activities will actually increase flood risk (damming rivers near high flood risk property, beaver dams collapsing during storms causing inundation downstream etc)</li> </ul><p>Personally I'd favour allowing their widespread release but <strong>without</strong> any protection (except, maybe, making it illegal to hunt them for fur) so that Landowners who don't want them could cheaply control them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="holwellcourtfarm, post: 7794441, member: 42914"] The argument is that they: [LIST] [*]Create Natural Flood Management by felling trees across rivers and creating ponded areas [*]Increase diversity of hydrology and ecology by creating new wetland areas thus providing more habitats for plants and animals that need those habitats [*]Achieve the above at no cost unlike humans moving in to do it [/LIST] The counter argument is that: [LIST] [*]Our landscape has developed in the absence of beavers for 2 centuries and isn't ready for them now [*]Their activities are not delivered in targeted locations and so risk unacceptable impacts (flooding urban areas and good farmland) [*]Landowners are faced with the costs of managing those unwanted impacts without choice [*]Sometimes their activities will actually increase flood risk (damming rivers near high flood risk property, beaver dams collapsing during storms causing inundation downstream etc) [/LIST] Personally I'd favour allowing their widespread release but [B]without[/B] any protection (except, maybe, making it illegal to hunt them for fur) so that Landowners who don't want them could cheaply control them. [/QUOTE]
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