@scotsbeavers.bsky.social
In the UK, most agri-environment subsidy schemes support human pond creation, with little financial incentive for landowners to accommodate beaver wetlands, despite having a higher percentage of insects and species.
www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
The widespread and ignorant opposition to beavers -- despite all the evidence of the incredible ecosystem benefits they provide for all other creatures -- is so depressing. Fortunately there are examples like this case in Scotland when the naysayers don't prevail and beavers are reintroduced.
09.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application.
www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
The full Beaver Moon will rise in the UK on 5th November! 🦫✨
It will be the largest and brightest Moon this year 🌝
"The push to farm all available land to produce as much food as possible during WW2 continues into the current subsidy system. Even when farmers want to leave marginal and hard-to-manage areas alone, the subsidy system drives them to keep fighting nature."
www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/alyth-voice/
✨Last chance to book tickets!✨
🦫Beaver Trust production "Balancing the Scales"
📽️ THIS FRIDAY 25 July, 7.00 pm (start 7.30pm)
📍Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth
STAY after for a discussion panel of experts Q&A.
Admission is FREE
(donations welcome)
BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
GUEST PANELIST ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨
Balancing the Scales
Friday 25 July, 7pm
Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth
Panelists will include:
✨Paul Ramsay, of Bamff Estate,
✨Elliot McCandless, from Beaver Trust, and
✨Duncan Pepper, an aquatic ecologist !
BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
EXCITING NEWS! 🦫
WHERE:
The Soutar Theatre (AK Bell Library), York Place, Perth ✨
WHEN:
Friday 25 July, 7.00 pm✨
WHAT:
A screening of Beaver Trust's film production "Balancing the Scales" will be shown! 🦫✨
Admission is FREE:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
Doors open 7.00 pm
EXCITING NEWS! 🦫
WHERE:
The Soutar Theatre (AK Bell Library), York Place, Perth ✨
WHEN:
Friday 25 July, 7.00 pm✨
WHAT:
A screening of Beaver Trust's film production "Balancing the Scales" will be shown! 🦫✨
Admission is FREE:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
Doors open 7.00 pm
BBC News - Relocated beavers improve River Glaven water quality - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who would have thought wildfires could come to Scotland? 🔥
Yet this year drought and fire have been very real issues.
Could beavers be used alongside agriculture in Scotland to help water retention and protect crops or livestock from wildfires? 👀💭
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
It is disheartening to see Forbes halt this beaver license.
This seems to mark another example of ministerial appeasement of the NFUS at the expense of nature.
This raises serious questions about the government's committment to the Scottish biodiversity strategy.
theferret.scot/beaver-bid-b...
Wonderful new children's book by Catherine Ward with beautiful illustrations from Phoebe Roze.
✨BY THE BEAVER POOL✨
A touching story about accepting the flow of life, and the healing power of nature. With some fun beaver facts thrown in!
Available now!🦫✨
#DYK that beavers are being brought back in the US to help tackle wildfires? 🔥
As well as creating habitats, improving water quality and alleviating flooding, their dams can create fireproof refuges! @scotsbeavers.bsky.social
Watch the animation to see how:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM9...
Not just a gripping tale about Scottish beavers - but a really good example of rewilding in writing.
Available for pre-order now.
In bookshops from 1st May from birlinn.co.uk
Fantastic work Tom!
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✨🦫INTERNATIONAL BEAVER DAY!✨🦫
Beavers are multi-taskers who can help restore our rivers!
From upstream water retention to soil nutrient restoration, carbon sequestration to biodiversity enhancement...🦋🎣🐾
The list goes on!
To find out more please visit our website.
Photo credit: Dave Maric ©️
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20.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A great couple of days at #SNSC2025!
My colleagues @bsbiscotland.bsky.social & @sarahelizwoods.bsky.social really enjoyed chatting with the students about #PlantAtlas2020 & hearing the brilliant talks.
Huge thanks to the @scotnsconf.bsky.social team on a great event & many thanks for inviting us!
HAPPY WORLD REWILDING DAY!✨
Yesterday at Scotland's Nature Student Conference, we heard many fantastic talks on nature restoration, and many included... beavers! 🦫 ✨
Well done to Emily Simpson, a PhD student at the University of Stirling. She is studying wild beaver in Scotland.
#SNSC2025
Fantastic evening watching Beaver Trust's film "Balancing the Scales" on 14th March, 2025.
Well done to everyone involved, congratulations from everyone at SWBG 🦫✨
The secret is out - beavers are the key!🌱👀🎣🪵
#beavertrust #balancingthescales #rewildingscotland #rewilding
Fab article below!
**We will have a stall at PERTH Museum, this Saturday (15th March) from 12-4pm in Gallery 3. Come say hello!**✨
**We will also be at the Scotland's Nature Student Conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens, EDINBURGH (18th & 19th March).**✨
theconversation.com/beavers-offe...
The University of Stirling and Bamff Estate have been studying beaver impacts on our rivers.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2496503...
Beavers have now been legally released in England (Purbeck, Dorset), without fencing or constraints, for the first time
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Huge congratulations to our friends at Beaver Trust for helping get this LONG overdue decision on beaver release in England over the line.
#rewildingbritain #rewilding
Read our letter to Scotland's First Minister 👇
We suggest he familiarises himself with the widely recognised downstream flood prevention benefits of beavers, and remind him that there are many voters who welcome beavers 😀
www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/letter-to-jo...
[Photo credit: Rhona Forester]
50,000 signatures will make an impression on the decision-making politicians (petition currently has 46,206 sigs).
Can we get it to 50,000 by next week? Pls sign! ☠️🦅🙏
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime #BritishEcologists
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/13/p...
A Valentines poem reading Beavers are brown, Peatland is too If we care for nature It will care for us too On Barbie pink background scattered with small red hearts. A cheeky looking beaver is popping out from the left hand side
As you spend this #ValentinesDay being pampered by the one's you love, remember all nature does for you, too.
Beaver reintroduction and peatland restoration have been proven to prevent flooding. By rewilding our natural landscapes, let's show nature some love🦫 💚
A beaver colony stunned the local Czech community by building dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, "creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed...saved the local authorities 30 million crowns" - english.radio.cz/beavers-buil...
05.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 53 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 8
World Wetland Day!✨🦫
Wetlands are an essential - and often abused - habitat.
They *should* be a common feature of the British landscape but they've been largely drained to make room for modern agriculture.
We know one creature that could bring them back! 🦫✨
#rewilding #scottishbeaver #beaver
