REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021

Building dams that flood land, the beavers have infuriated farmers. Some have obtained permits to kill the animals — setting off outrage among conservationists.

A new instalment of the REWILD series, with a commission for The New York Times, working with writer Stephen Castle..

Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 A beaver carries a branch up a burn (stream) at Bamff ecotourism, Scotland, where beavers once captive escape and now live wild across the landscape. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 Beaver impacts, felled trees and channels, seen on the landscape around Mill Dam, Dunkeld in Scotland. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 Beaver impacts, felled trees and channels, seen on the landscape around Mill Dam, Dunkeld in Scotland. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 Modified landscape caused by beavers at Bamff ecotourism, Scotland, where beavers once captive escape and now live wild across the landscape. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 A beaver at Bamff Ecotourism, Scotland, where beavers once captive escape and now live wild across the landscape. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 Louise and Paul Ramsay created Bamff Ecotourism near Alyth, Scotland, where they first housed beavers that have since escaped and live wild across the landscape. Other private collections also lost animals which are now widespread across the Tayside catchment in the heart of Scotland. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.
Kieran Dodds REWILD in The New York Times, September 2021 A kit (young) beaver at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, Scotland is given a health check by specialist wildlife veterinarian Romain Pizzi and Gary Curran (head keeper of the zoo), before relocation to England. Beaver expert Roisin Campbell-Palmer works with farms who have been granted lethal control licenses by the Scottish Government and gives them the option to humanely trap and relocate the beavers to England. Beavers were hunted to extinction in Scotland in the 16th century but in recent years they have recolonised the landscape after a small number escaped from private wildlife collections particularly around Tayside. As population has grown to over 1000 animals, farming communities were granted permission by the Scottish Government to cull animals that can block drainage systems by raising water levels and ruin commercial crops. Conservationists argue the rodent, widespread in continental Europe, can rapidly reform a landscape for the benefit of wildlife, felling trees and flooding surrounding landscapes by the creation of dams.