National Trust project shows family home of ‘nature’s engineers’ and how they have improved the environment for other wildlife
They can be seen chugging around their watery domain like small furry tugboats, gnawing away at saplings or nuzzling up to each other. The sound of babbling water and birdsong provides a pleasing soundtrack.A new online tour is being launched on Thursday of an enclosure on the Holnicote estate in Somerset that is home to a family of five beavers. In what is billed as the first of its kind, the tour allows viewers to navigate through the 2.
Other wildlife captured include kingfishers, stoat, roe deer and bull finch, all of which are believed to have benefited from the changes the beavers – nature’s engineers – are making to the area. with a key aim of slowing the flow of water through the landscape to reduce flooding, as well as to help hold water in the landscape in times of drought and improve river quality and biodiversity.
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