Beaver published wild in England for the first time in centuries to be approved in England | conservation

The publication of beavers in English waterways has been permitted for the first time in centuries, the guard can reveal.

Environment Minister Steve Reed is said to announce that Nature Groups can receive a license for release. The first publications could take place this autumn.

Until about 20 years ago, the rodent in Great Britain had died out for 400 years after it had been hunted on fur, meat and fragrance oil. In recent years, however, the beavers have returned to our waterways through licensed publications in our waterways and some illegal publications. In England, an estimated 500 live in the wild.

Beaver create useful habitats for animal world and reduce floods by breaking water, slowing down the water flow and creating pools.

The government will represent a new approach that enables beaver to live wildly. Release projects have to create a 10-year plan to prove where and how they would affect the landscape.

It is assumed that the government hesitated to publish the Beavers, and Reed's plan was stalled due to concerns of No. 10. It was a conservative Legacy project that could unnecessarily annoy farmers. After the Guardian reported this blocking of politics, there was an outcry from wildlife groups. Defra has been in the past few days in view of the green light for the announcement.

It is assumed that the Ministry of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in Downing Street has admitted that Biber could be part of the Labor growth mission because the rodents work free to build infrastructure and restore nature. The hard -working animals recently saved the Czech government £ 1 million by building a dam.

Richard Benwell, the managing director of Wildlife and Countryside Link, welcomed the news. “The restoration of nature means restoring entire ecosystems, and only a few can beat the beaver to bring landscapes to life,” he said.

“These popular animals can help restore rivers and wetlands and reduce floods and drought. Your eco-engineering creates various habitats that are great for local communities and wild animals. It is high time for wild publications and that the government is making progress. “

Beaver plans are ready to go. Such a program is the Purbeck Heath's release project of the National Trust in Dorset, and the organization of Wildlife Trusts has locations in Devon and Cornwall, where it wants to publish Beavers.

This week the President of the National Farmers' Union, Tom Bradshaw said that farmers should be able to kill unruly beavers: “They must have the final control method. And if beavers end up in the wrong place, this fatal control must be part of the fact that the species can be able to reintroduce the species. “

Current plans published under the previous government indicate that such a fatal control is permitted as the last way out. The Guardian understands that the plans to be published from the outside include support for farmers who have accidentally flooded their fields from Biber. The aim is that the return of Biber is carefully succeeded in avoiding negative effects on agriculture, food production and infrastructure.

This guideline is almost a decade in the formation. The former secretary of Tory Environment, Michael Gove, announced a Beaver publicization procedure in 2017. In 2020, the results of an experiment against wild beavers on the Otter River in Devon showed that they reduced the floods in local settlements and the habitat they had created increased biodiversity and the size of local fish.

The lobbying of agricultural groups and landowners, however, has made the successive governments nervous to enable the registration of an release plan.

ZAC Goldsmith, the conservative peer and former environment minister, had tried to promptly in office to give the publications of Biber environmentally friendly.

He said, “It is great that this will finally be solved. It should never have been that long. The beaver has an almost magical effect on the environment, maintains water, increases the biological diversity massively and brings our nature -free public. Governments are always careful, but the case for beavers could not be clearer. “