Beavers as ecosystem engineers

Join Nith Life at The Bridge to hear from two researchers from Stirling University's Faculty of Natural Sciences. Hear from Patrick Cook on how pollinators respond to beaver wetlands and from Emily Simpson on researching ponds for carbon storage.

Scotland does not have wild lynx and wolves. We do have beavers for rewilding!

Following 20 years of dedicated research by Nature Scot the results convinced the Scottish Government to publish a National Strategy to identify and expand the beaver population to new catchments alongside appropriate management and mitigation.

As beavers are most suited to upland areas where agricultural practice is less industrialised, and are proven ecosystem engineers, might there be a substantial niche for them in the upper reaches of the Nith catchment as well as much of Galloway?

And would we then still need an expensive Whitesands flood prevention sceme!!!

Credit to derek-otway-0gYliQPbeKo-unsplash for the image.

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