Beaver Trust

A big year for beavers 🦫 From supporting the first wild beaver release in England to expanding our education programme. These steps bring us closer to restoring Britain's beaver population. Thank you to all our supporters, we couldn’t do this without you

Becoming beaver ready! Yesterday, we released guidance in collaboration with @WildlifeTrusts, setting out the support and funding needed in England to ensure farmers, landowners and beavers can thrive together. Read more, and find the guidance here👇 tinyurl.com/4uwh6dt2

To start Series 9 of #TheLodgeCast #podcast, we head to @argatyredkites with Tom Bowser & our new co-host, Alana 🪁 As the first private landowner in Scotland to release beavers into the wild, Tom has had a front-row seat to their return. 🎧 Listen now tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

New episodes every Wednesday starting tomorrow, 1 April. Listen 🎧 Subscribe 📩 Share ♻️ tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

Hosts Emily Bowen and Alana Skilbeck dive in with expert guests: 🎙️ Tom Bowser, @argatyredkites 🎙️ Oly Armstrong, Heart of Argyll Wildlife Organisation 🎙️ Jen of Avon Wildlife Trust and Bevis Watts 🎙️ Beaver Trust’s Ben Morris and James Dilnot of River Stour IDB

What does living with beavers look like on longer time scales? #TheLodgeCast is back with a new series connecting with the pioneers who have gone beyond the trial period and learning from communities that have been coexisting with beavers for over five years.

We’re looking for a new Policy Officer to join our team, to help Beaver Trust influence national policies and strategies that enable the restoration of beavers, rivers and wetlands. 📅 Applications close 9am, Monday 20th April 2026 👉 beavertrust.org/our-mission/va…

You can read the recent paper on beavers and breeding amphibians in North America here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

We’re at the very early stages of exploring a British-wide science project with partners to better understand these relationships between beavers and amphibians. But it’s already clear that when beavers engineer landscapes for themselves, amphibians thrive. 5/6

Beavers dig canals as they rely on water for protection, and these channels let them travel further into the landscape, acting as quick escape routes from predators. They can also float heavy branches through canals, saving energy and accessing food up to 100 metres away. 1/6

@PaulDaw43665330 Thank you Paul! 🦫

@BeaverTrust @ForestryLS @NatureScot What a gorgeous thing to see. We'll done to those who've helped to make this happen.

Yesterday, we were thrilled to release a pair of beavers into @ForestryLS's Loch Morlich. This is an exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, under licence from @NatureScot, realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy. 1/4

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

Naturally shy and usually active at dawn and dusk, beavers are expected to avoid interaction with people. However, we ask you to remember that they are sensitive wild animals. While they may share our spaces, it’s crucial to give them the respect and quiet they need. 3/4

Watch Dr Malison’s review of the literature on fish and beaver interactions at the bottom of this page: beavertrust.org/our-work/beave…

Read the full research paper being discussed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ef…

Dr Rachel Malison from @umontana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station explains how beaver dams influence habitat, food resources, growth and movement of juvenile Atlantic salmon and trout across three paired beaver-dammed and beaver-free tributaries of key salmon rivers in Norway.