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London's history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital


The Big Issue visited the home of the first beavers to live in London for 400 years. This is what we discovered.

Its success rests on a 200-strong army of volunteers, who not only make sure the fence is intact but check camera traps on a daily basis and monitor beaver welfare. On a less dramatic scale than wolves, however, nature is slowly reclaiming these rainy isles, with hundreds of projects seeking to remove the UK from the list of the world’s most nature-depleted countries. The way beavers alter the terrain offers a safer place for water voles to live, with more escape options from the mink hunting them.

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