Beaver away: are England’s beavers helping or harming? 

Youre the reason I knew about the bisons being introduced in blean AND I LIVE IN CANTERBURY! And then also the beavers and red kites and water voles etc etc It Inspired me and woke me up to how much of our wildlife has dwindled. You set up a chain of thoughts that has led me down a path of immence love for our nature and rewilding, you put me onto mossy earth aswell so I cant thank you enough, I really am grateful that you translated your passion into videos that then project that passion onto others, its rly contagious keep it up! I made a wildlife pond and making my garden wild, made a lil hibernaculum aswell with rotting old logs and a massive pile of dead twigs, just trying anything i can in my area, also waiting on these lovely purple poppies to go into seed so I can spread them around my garden and other grassy banks or spaces around my local area.

Waited his whole career to be able to say that on camera... :

Hello 👋 how are you doing

YH WILD ANIMALS LOVE FENCES

​Many other species are trapped within the fence lines also. ​@@Yogoniogi

You forgot the bit about destroying farm land and trees and when their dams give way (and they do) the flooding is bad. There is no problem with a small and controlled population in the right place, but in some places they are totally not appropriate. The numbers need to be controlled and could be a source of healthy meat and the fur could be made use of once again (totally renewable and biodegradable with little processing required). The dams could even provide small scale hydro-electric power.

Better tree species management downstream can reduce that impact -Alders are good for this. Again, Sensible planning of where they should be and the surrounding area land use will prevent any unwanted damage.

@@rogersmith8339well they can’t do any worse than fucken humans we’ve wrecked the environments we live in why convenience and I live in clean and green New Zealand where it ain’t that clean and green. Just a slogan for tourist.

I've never been to England but if yall got any man made ponds that are above your farmland like alot of folks do here beavers will try and take out the berms to flood the fields, they got at least 10ft into ours last year before we trapped them

@@missourimongoose8858 If this is a persistent problem, maybe the ponds are in the wrong location. I can;t say, but there is a big difference in the you guys have natural beavers, we're only now bringing them back, they have yet to find their balance. Your beavers have been living there since before the colonial times, they know what works with the land, you could learn from them maybe. If not, they make good eating.

What is so baffling? Where another species is against their interests they will be against it's introduction. It's hardly a difficult concept to grasp.

Ironically, farmers and those who live in the countryside don’t like wildlife

@@crayontom9687 I'm not sure what is ironic about agribusiness disliking things which go against their business interests...

Well, these highly sensitive conditioned idiots need state intervention to understand that the subsidies they earn can be put to much better use. For everyone's good. Their clouded overly emotional violent minds need help to emerge from their little mindsets. Then they might see that there are other much more meaningful business interests that they can be part of. Mind you if they were to see my reply to your response they'd probably go into a tantrum and start firing their rifles at anything they can see in the trees. And the poor bastards probably voted for Brexit as they see trade deals take away their business.

@@tjmarx Beavers are not competing with your interests

Thats like saying I don't want firefighter they spread fire This region is prone to fire but it's mannaged with the oil usine right next the giant flamethrower. How dumb do a farmer have to be to think that dams and canal are the solution to flooding when it's the literral cause of those event

​@@deinsilverdrac8695farmers in the UK are not brightest of folk and are old so don't do well with sustainable ideas

@@patrickwilliamson29 A dangerous and idiotic combination of Nostalgia for the "good" olds ways. And of Why being sustainable for generations to come when you only have 20 years to live anyway, who Cares about nature, wildlife or other human being anyway ?

It would be wonderful! They are sociable, gentle, industrious and totally committed to their family and community. They work together to get the job done without fuss or muss. The only time they get rough is if something comes too close to their youngsters. Then the gloves are off, and they fight to the death to protect their little ones.

Check out Timberborn, a video game based on that idea!

Nonsense!

​@@bionic4368 No it's the fucking truth. - wetland restoration -more Fishes, - CO2 capture, - free clean water - prevent drought -mitigate floods

A landowner with a gun.

Although beavers haven’t lived in Britain for around 400yrs, I’d imagine that the fox would find them tasty.

@@warden1969 I'd imagine a beaver could be a though opponent for a fox.

@@adoatero5129 oh I agree, it probably wouldn’t be an easy meal, maybe wolves will be reintroduced aswell to help control the beaver population 😄

I'm thinking only a harry hill sketch will sort this out...

Oi! Behave

Did you watch the video or just decide to have a whine? The trees are still alive and can regrow. They literally showed you that.

@@OwOudoge who’s whining…?? It was merely a thought.

@@OwOudoge how many trees have you seen regrow after they’ve been chopped down…??

@@warden1969 A thought that was answered in the video. The fact you decided to post that "thought" without watching it and reply to me suggesting trees can't regrow when they've been cut down suggests to me you're whining

@@OwOudoge just because the tree hasn’t died and will produce spindly off-shoots, doesn’t mean that it will regrow into a tree.

They already recolonise Ukraine as well as all of Europe Recreating wetland and helping countless of species and lifes.

Nope thats the opposite. Beaver are good for river health, prevent flood and drought. While dams and canal or just destroying River Banks with concrete. IS the issue who cause drought, pollution and floods. As well as killing the entire ecosystem. Badger regulate lot of pest species and create shelter for bats, foxes and other animals who do the same and actually save lot of money, prevent crop dammage and epidemia. Yeah badger are not pest or destructive and super usefull.

⁠@@deinsilverdrac8695 finally someone who knows his stuff. I wholeheartedly agree with you mate and it’s pretty sad Badgers get a bad rep because of they’re aggression when they are so beneficial to our wildlife.

Because humans need to have total control over the natural world?

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