- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Personally I don't think beavers are a substitute for the billions of £ that should be spent on flood defences in the UK. Nothing against beavers as such mind.
For a completely unbiased and scientific answer to your question and many others: http://taysidebeaverstudygroup.org.uk/faqs/4573260555do beavers get tb I've enough problems with the wildlife we have already without introducing ones that have long left this island
So it's legal as long as you don't know whether it's alive or dead thenI love the advice that it is illegal to have a dead or live beaver in your possession
Sounds rudeSchrödingers beaver!
Schrödingers beaver!
How do beavers and badgers get on together?
I'm a purely commerical farmer. We are looking at beavers in the near future.
We have the near perfect site for them in an area of wetland woodland, which has seen some flooding for at least the last 40 years. However, we are seeing increasing problems with flooding in the village downstream and pollution, I strongly suspect from a solar farm upstream and several maize fields that border the stream (although I have noticed EA cars parked in the gateway several times, so I suspect they may not be maize in the future...) We are currently measuring flow rates and pollution, so we can see the effect later on.
We will be installing some fairly serious metal fencing, which extends underground.
Beavers may be introduced in the wrong areas, and by people who may not consider farming as their first priority, but to say that they have no benefit at all is simply not true. If farmers resist this and refuse to have any part in attempting to control flood water, then it will happen without you and you will have no input whatsoever. If you at least attempt to work with the ideas you can have some input.
Farming has to clean up it's act and since no one in farming seems to want to it is left to those outside the industry.
You're going to farm beavers commercially?
Sounds like it needs plenty of space but could give a return from unproductive wet woodlands?
What insurance are you providing the surrounding population for any damage or loss of life caused directly as a result of your actions ?
If I wanted to create a dam I would need planning permission and reports into water flows ... engineer reports and guarantees examined by professionals.
"Farming has to clean up it's act"
I bet you are providing nothing at all in guarantees to local residents and hence this comment above is just another in a long line of environmental BS.
There is no risk of loss of life!
For feck sake if you actually read what I've already said you would find the answers. I'm not interested in repeating myself to a group of people who have clearly made up their minds.
Farming's environmental impact will be improved in the recent future. Environmental policies will happen and farmland will perform actions other than production of food. Whether that is farmer driven or legislation pushed by the 'environmentalists' is currently the option up for debate.
The environment, who needs it?