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Eurasian beaver and kit by the River Tay in Scotland. After being extinct for several centuries, beavers were reintroduced to Great Britain in 2009. The Eurasian beaver has been the successful subject of a century of official and unapproved species reintroduction programs in Europe and Asia.
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of at least 1.5 million in 2020. The Eurasian beaver was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum , with only about 1,200 beavers in eight relict populations from France to Mongolia in the ...
A five-year trial reintroduction at Knapdale in Argyll started in 2009 and concluded in 2014. [73] A few hundred beavers live wild in the Tay river basin, as a result of escapes from a wildlife park. [74] A similar reintroduction trial is being undertaken on the river otter in Devon, England. [75]
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One of the people involved in setting up the charity was Guardian journalist and author George Monbiot who published Feral, a book about rewilding, in 2013. [5] Rewilding Britain has called for the reintroduction of predators such as lynx and wolves which were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago. [6]
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Celtic Reptile & Amphibian breeding facility in 2021. Celtic Rewilding, [1] formally known as Celtic Reptile & Amphibian, [2] is a conservation company, established in 2020, by Harvey Tweats and Tom Whitehurst, with the initial aim of reintroducing extinct reptiles and amphibians back to rewilding projects within the UK.