Reintroducing the beaver has been glacially slow in English waters Guy Edwardes/naturepl.com
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LAST month, the UK government made a long-anticipated ruling on the future of a colony of beavers that has been living freely on the in Devon since at least 2014. Against expectations, it decided they could stay – the first time an extinct native mammal has been legally reintroduced into the wild in England. Scotland’s government made a similar call in 2016, and in 2019…



