From reduced flood damage to improved water availability and new diversification opportunities, Tom’s story shows what living alongside beavers can look like on Britain’s farmland.

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In our latest guest blog, Tom reflects on four years of living and managing land alongside beavers, sharing the practical challenges, environmental gains and business benefits of coexistence.

Argaty was only the second authorised beaver translocation site in Scotland, following the official trial at Knapdale.

Beaver Trust supported the translocation, helping to bring beavers back to their working livestock farm.

If ponds freeze, beavers can be restricted beneath the ice. They swim familiar routes from the lodge to their food stores, and maintain access holes by pushing down on thin ice, or pushing up and gnawing on thick ice.

More info: beavertrust.org/beaver-basics/beaver-biology/ [2/2]

The return of beavers to the Cairngorms National Park has been led by @cairngormsnews.bsky.social, working closely with partners, land managers, and local communities. [4\4]

Our team is confident the animals will thrive and deliver biodiversity benefits here, thanks to the abundance of suitable habitat identified through our modelling of the Spey catchment with the @exeter.ac.uk and we look forward to seeing the changes this family brings. [3/4]

This marks another exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, as granted under licence from @naturescot.bsky.social and in realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy. [2/4]

The return of beavers to the Cairngorms National Park has been led by @cairngormsnationalpark, working closely with partners, land managers, and local communities. [4\4]

Our team is confident the animals will thrive and deliver biodiversity benefits here, thanks to the abundance of suitable habitat identified through our modelling of the Spey catchment with the @UniofExeter, and we look forward to seeing the changes this family brings. [3/4]

This marks another exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, as granted under licence from @naturescot, and in realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy. [2/4]

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