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BBC: Britain's beaver reintroduction stirs controversy
Nature Habitat manager or wildlife menace?
The fashion for looking, and smelling, like a beaver killed off their entire population in the UK. But now beavers are back, and not everybody is happy to have them.
Thick brown waterproof fur coupled with a medicinal musk made beaver-chic serious business in Britain until they were hunted to extinction in the 16th century.
In recent years, conservationists, perhaps remorseful for their ancestors'......
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Beaver brouhaha
Posted by BBC: Ella Davies on June 1st, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation