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The humble beaver has had a surprising amount of direct and indirect effects on human life throughout history. This semiaquatic rodent can do a surprising

This is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. for penny green. this is a magical place. last year it was just a stream in a field, but now its become a pond, which by day looks fairly quiet, but by night comes alive. two adult beavers were brought here from scotland last year. theyve become quite at home in a two hectare securely fenced area in which theyve built dams to create ponds. everything has gone swimmingly, so much so that last week, when penny checked th...

Watching very closely because the lionesses could be doing rather well. more on the womens soccer world cup in our business coverage. for centuries european bison roamed the uk, but after becoming extinct more than six thousand years ago — last year they were bought back. 0ur climate editorjustin rowlatt has been taking a look at how theyve settled in. thousands of years after the last one was killed, presumably by an ancient briton, and bison are back. this time around they are back. this tim...

Is in kent finding out more. good morning. it is a beautiful morning here in the kent countryside. behind these massive fences are some bison. we can actually see them on the gps tracking. we are here, roughly where my thumb is, and they are where my index finger is. there are about —— they are about 150 metres away inside the woodland. it is helpful the sound of bbc breakfast or will draw them out closer. this story started a year ago today at this very site. the bbc�*sjustin rowlatt, who...

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The 18th of February is observed as World Pangolin Day. However, most of us are still unaware of the existence of this unique and significant animal. So, what the heck is a pangolin? Aside from being shy and slow-moving creatures, guardians of precious natural resources to ecosystem engineers, these small creatures have an inevitable role to play on the planet – a very vital one!

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Thanks ever so much for hanging on for hours. a lovely day to be out there. these pictures, they are quite something, and they? when you realise just how long beavers were absent from exmoor.— realise just how long beavers were absent from exmoor. thats fight and the are absent from exmoor. thats fight and they are fantastic _ absent from exmoor. thats fight and they are fantastic animals. _ absent from exmoor. thats fight and they are fantastic animals. i - absent from exmoor. thats fight and...

Of the virus among the population, which has not been vaccinated. the first baby beaver, or kit, to be born on exmoorfor 400 years has just had its first birthday. to mark the birthday of the young beaver, named rashford after the england footballer, the national trust has released this new footage of him hard at work building dams and moving mud with his dad, yogi. i thought that was a bear but apparently that can be a beaver as well. earlier, i spoke to ben eardley, project manager for the nat...

Security and health. experts point out that protecting those ecosystems is one of the best ways to counter climate change. healthy forests store carbon, mangrove swamps absorb flood water and elephants act as ecosystem engineers, excavating waterholes and fertilising land. but money is the key. for every dollar governments spend on nature, four dollars is spent on subsidies for agriculture, forestry and fisheries that exploit and degrade it. marco lambertini is the director general of wwf intern...