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Beavers have been reintroduced to Dorset for the first time in 400 years, a wildlife trust has revealed.
A pair of adult male and female beavers were introduced into an enclosure in the west of Dorset on Monday.
The pair will live in a large area of freshwater habitat not accessible to the public which can be continually monitored by wildlife experts.
Rivers conservation officer Steve Oliver said welcoming beavers back to the county was fantastic .
He said besides being magnificent creatures in their own right they were extra special because their engineering activities have the potential to bring even more life to a landscape and enable other species to flourish .
Marine Scientist Inspired by Torrey Canyon Disaster is Honoured in New Oxford Dictionary
15th January 2021
Stella Turk, MBE at work in Shang-ri La, her cottage in Camborne
Credit: courtesy The Packet
The work of a marine scientist and conservationist who pioneered a response to the Torrey Canyon supertanker environmental disaster of 1967 has been marked by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The late Stella Turk, a leading expert on molluscs on the British and Irish coasts, is among 241 people to have been acknowledged as history “shapers” in the publication’s new edition.
Turk ( née Phillips) was born in St Mary’s on the Scilly isles in 1925, and developed an interest in natural history from a young age. After she married Frank Archibald Turk, a conchologist and marine life expert, she further developed her expertise on the Cornish coast.
People from Plymouth who have tragically died in recent weeks
Touching messages have been shared in the funeral notices section of the Plymouth Herald
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A pair of orcas, a waving seal pup and rare sea slug that looks like a lump of glowing coal: Stunning photos from a year around the UK s coasts (including the scourge of discarded PPE)
Wildlife Trusts saw surge of public interest in marine life in a year of seaside staycations due to the pandemic
Volunteers and conservationists spotted rare bluefin tuna run, baby Risso s dolphin and found new seagrass bed - and recorded breeding successes for grey seals, guillemots and terns
Wildlife is still under threat from plastic, litter, discarded fishing gear and disposable PPE such as masks