Who dumped the beaver?

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
So who dumped the beavers? Cornwall apparently has a pair of beavers secured in a 5 acres enclosure. They haven't had time to breed....but now there are more! Is this the solution to unwanted introduced species? Or are they multiplying by asexual reproduction?

 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
It is illegal to move wild animals but Scot Gov turns a blind eye to this. It becomes uncontrolled. Should shoot or trap those found in the wrong place.
People have daft ideas that beavers will be the solution to flooding by building dams. Not aware they can read flood protection plans. They also destroy a lot of trees or leave them in a dangerous condition. And trees are supposed to be good
 

Swarfmonkey

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Location
Hampshire
So who dumped the beavers? Cornwall apparently has a pair of beavers secured in a 5 acres enclosure. They haven't had time to breed....but now there are more! Is this the solution to unwanted introduced species? Or are they multiplying by asexual reproduction?


I'd put a fiver on it being Derek Gow (you know the one, the beardy little evil Oompa Loompa that has Ben Goldsmith as his sugar daddy). He's in that neck of the woods as well.
 

slackjawedyokel

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
It is illegal to move wild animals but Scot Gov turns a blind eye to this. It becomes uncontrolled. Should shoot or trap those found in the wrong place.
People have daft ideas that beavers will be the solution to flooding by building dams. Not aware they can read flood protection plans. They also destroy a lot of trees or leave them in a dangerous condition. And trees are supposed to be good
The thing is, the UK is a pretty densely populated small island. It’s only a matter of time before the little furry darlings start to cause major disruption to the general public; whether that’s finding their houses under water or resulting in the closure of major railway lines and trunk roads.
 

Humble Village Farmer

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BASE UK Member
Location
Essex
The thing is, the UK is a pretty densely populated small island. It’s only a matter of time before the little furry darlings start to cause major disruption to the general public; whether that’s finding their houses under water or resulting in the closure of major railway lines and trunk roads.
Let's be honest, those things are already happening without beavers, so it's going to be difficult to blame them next time it happens.
 

Welderloon

Member
Trade
The work of dangerously clueless individuals in the name of 'diversity'
The reality is they cause far more damage & will increase CO2 production when they topple trees & block up the waterways creating endless rotting vegetation.
The perpetrators should be charged with crimes relating to accelerating climate change

Beaver are responsible for climate change
 

Swarfmonkey

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Location
Hampshire
The thing is, the UK is a pretty densely populated small island. It’s only a matter of time before the little furry darlings start to cause major disruption to the general public; whether that’s finding their houses under water or resulting in the closure of major railway lines and trunk roads.

f**k all would be done about it unless it affected the great and the good, then there'd be a sudden about face. Just look at how the EU suddenly went from "protect the wolves" to "cull the buggers" after von der Leyen's pony was shredded by one, a prime example of the political types only giving a toss when their stupidity affects them personally.
 

melted welly

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Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
It is illegal to move wild animals but Scot Gov turns a blind eye to this. It becomes uncontrolled. Should shoot or trap those found in the wrong place.
People have daft ideas that beavers will be the solution to flooding by building dams. Not aware they can read flood protection plans. They also destroy a lot of trees or leave them in a dangerous condition. And trees are supposed to be good
There’s a chap with a van who aids their proliferation throughout Scotland. Allegedly.
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
f**k all would be done about it unless it affected the great and the good, then there'd be a sudden about face. Just look at how the EU suddenly went from "protect the wolves" to "cull the buggers" after von der Leyen's pony was shredded by one, a prime example of the political types only giving a toss when their stupidity affects them personally.
Except the Eu did not change policy after Ursula Von Der Layen’s pony was bought down by wolves
 

Happy

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Location
Scotland
So who dumped the beavers? Cornwall apparently has a pair of beavers secured in a 5 acres enclosure. They haven't had time to breed....but now there are more! Is this the solution to unwanted introduced species? Or are they multiplying by asexual reproduction?

Loads of people with agendas could have done it.
As well as official Nature Scot trapping up here for official rehoming elsewhere there are also beaver vigilante groups going about releasing them into new areas.

Probably backed by the likes of Goldsmith down south.

I must get onto historical Google earth sometime. The difference in riverbanks in the last 10 years is astounding. This time of year the river banks were coming alive with fresh leaves on all the alder that lined them. Now just a desolate wilderness off stumps & washed up dead branches:cry:

Still waiting on any of the willow regrowth that was promised too, banks eroding now where they never did before due to loss of vegetation & roots that stabilised them.
 

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
I'd put a fiver on it being Derek Gow (you know the one, the beardy little evil Oompa Loompa that has Ben Goldsmith as his sugar daddy). He's in that neck of the woods as well.

Or their friend, Stanley Johnson.

This was from 3 years ago, he has certainly got some live ones since;
 

Swarfmonkey

Member
Location
Hampshire
Or their friend, Stanley Johnson.

This was from 3 years ago, he has certainly got some live ones since;

I wouldn't put it past him. He's a nasty piece of work, an absolute hypocrite, and as a certain female MP found out he's a bit handsy as well.
 

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