Happy #InternationalBeaverDay
Beaver Trust is a nature restoration charity working to restore beavers to regenerate landscapes. As Britain’s leading beaver specialists, we deliver all aspects of practical beaver reintroduction, from feasibility assessments and licensing to animal health, welfare and long term management.
Alongside this work, we support communities to live alongside beavers through advice, mitigation and education, and advocate for legislation while leading national conversations on the role of beavers in restoring ecosystems and building climate resilience.
Find out more about our work and this incredible keystone species on our website
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Building a wild population
Yesterday, our restoration team was thrilled to release another pair of beavers into the quieter shores of Loch Morlich, owned by @forestryandlandscot . This marks another exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, as granted under licence from @naturescot , and in realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy.
Across Europe, it is common for beavers to inhabit freshwater systems popular for human recreational activities, where their engineering enhances biodiversity and creates engaging natural spaces for people to enjoy.
Naturally shy and typically active at dawn and dusk, beavers are expected to avoid direct interaction with people. However, we ask you to remember that they are sensitive wild animals. While they may share our spaces, it is crucial to give them the respect and quiet they need to settle into their new surroundings.
The return of beavers to the Cairngorms National Park has been led by @cairngormsnationalpark , working closely with partners, land managers, and local communities.
Regenerating landscapes
In Knapdale, below one of the sites of the original Scottish Beaver Trial, a former commercial forestry site has been transformed into a thriving wetland by @forestryandlandscot and beavers working together.
A satellite image from 2010 shows what was once a forestry site, with an incised stream flowing through
non-native plantation and recently clear-felled blocks. After Forestry and Land Scotland chose not to restock the felled Sitka and instead allowed natural regeneration, young native trees began to establish.
Beavers arrived around 2014–15 and rapidly reshaped the landscape, building dams that reconnected the stream to its floodplain and gradually rewetted the site, creating diverse habitat for a wide range of species.
This wetland stands as one of the clearest and most compelling demonstrations of what beavers can achieve when given space and time. It is a living, shifting landscape, built by a species absent from Scotland for over four centuries, which vindicates the success of the Scottish Beaver Trial.
It is a powerful demonstration of what we have lost in many areas of Britain: a dynamic wetland shaped by a keystone species.
Read the full story of the Coille Bharr wetland, with insights from @argyll_beaver_centre and our restoration team, and discover what restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes can truly look like 👇
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Book your tickets to Beavers Across Britain 🦫
With just over a week to go, we’re looking forward to welcoming delegates to Newcastle for two days of science, practice and policy focused on the future of beaver restoration.
From beaver ecology and management to the policy that governs beaver releases in Britain, the conference brings together leading experts, practitioners and decision-makers to share knowledge, explore challenges and discuss what comes next for beavers in our landscapes.
A limited number of tickets are still available for either single days or the full conference. Visit the link in our bio to purchase tickets or take a look at the programme.
🗓️ 20 - 21 May
📍 Civic Centre, Newcastle
The ‘Beavers across Britain’ conference, organised by Beaver Trust, is supported by @cairngormsnationalpark and @forestryengland .
#BeaversAcrossBritain #Science #Practice #Policy
Signalling through scent
This time of year is when beavers are most active with scent marking. As young beavers disperse in spring looking for new territories, established families intensify their marking to defend their space and avoid direct conflict.
What you’re seeing in this video is a beaver building a scent mound, a small pile of mud and vegetation, before adding castoreum, a powerful scent produced from glands beneath the tail. This acts as a clear signal to other beavers that the territory is occupied.
These scent marks are not just warnings. They also communicate detailed information about the individual, including its sex, status and condition, and can even help attract a mate or reinforce pair bonds during the breeding season.
If you’re out near rivers or wetlands, look for these small mounds along the water’s edge, often in clusters at territory boundaries or near feeding areas. Fresh ones have a strong, distinctive, almost medicinal smell.
It highlights just how social and highly communicative beavers are, using scent and other signals to maintain relationships within their family groups and navigate interactions across the wider landscape.
#beavers #biology #ecology
Curious to learn more about beavers and their incredible impact on nature?
Join one of our training sessions to explore the ecology and conservation of the Eurasian beaver and its return to Britain's waterways.
From Kent to Scotland, these expert-led sessions cover everything from beaver biology and legal status to field sign identification—perfect for nature lovers, students, and professionals alike.
Whether you're building your knowledge or just starting your wildlife journey, there’s something for everyone.
Explore our events & book your place.
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This is what collective action looks like!
In one week, you doubled your impact and raised £56,114 for beavers, wetlands and wildlife.
Although we didn’t quite meet our target, we were very close, and that’s thanks to this wonderful community.
A huge thank you to the amazing 226 people who donated in the last week. Together, you’ve helped fund the restoration of our wildest engineers.
Every donation, like, share and message helped get us here. Thank you for making it happen; we are so thankful and pleased to have your support 🦫
Our spring fundraising goal is within reach - you can be the person who gets us over the line!
We’re in the final stretch of Earth Raise with just two hours left, with donations still being doubled until midday.
Every gift today helps bring beavers back to Britain’s landscapes, restoring wetlands, boosting biodiversity and building resilience to flooding and drought.
We’re just £11,000 from our target, meaning only £5,500 in donations could unlock the rest through match funding.
If each person reading this gave just £1, it could get us there. That’s the power of collective action. The link is in our bio 🔗
#EarthRaise2026 #donatetoday #doubleyourimpact
Just 19 hours left!
We’re in the final push, and every donation made will be doubled. That means twice the impact for beavers, wildlife and rivers in mainland Britain.
⥤ Double the beavers returned to our landscapes
⥤ Double the biodiversity they help create
⥤ Double the natural flood defence
⥤ Double the impact for climate resilience
Your support helps get beavers where they’re needed most, and match funding ends at midday tomorrow. Please donate now while every pound goes twice as far - the link is in our bio 🔗
#climateresilience #naturerecovery #donatetoday #doubleyourimpact #earthraise
You’re not just funding dams, you’re funding climate resilience:
💧 Holding water
💧 Creating life
💧 Returning our rivers and wetlands to their natural, thriving, vibrant, resilient state
If just half of our followers on this platform donated £1, it would add £26,800 to our total - enough to cover our beaver holding facilities and vet costs for the year and help us reach our overall target!
Until midday on Wednesday, every donation, no matter the size, will be doubled. Visit the link in our bio 🔗
#climateresilience #naturerecovery #donatetoday #doubleyourimpact
Just halfway through our campaign, and our wonderful community is already making an incredible impact!
Your donations will help returning beavers, restore landscapes and fight back against the impact of climate change.
Right now, your power to help is doubled! Our match funders are doubling donations, so £1 becomes £2, £10 becomes £20, £50 becomes £100, and £500 becomes £1000.
To everyone involved - thank you! 🦫
Until midday on Wednesday, every donation, no matter the size, will be doubled. Head to the link in our bio to find out more 🔗
#climateresilience #naturerecovery #donatetoday #doubleyourimpact
Beavers are nature’s best engineers. But they need us to get behind them. If you donate today, you will be saying yes to beavers and all that comes with them: returning wildlife, hopeful mood-boosting wetlands and resilience to flooding and drought.
Can you bring beavers back to Britain? Yes, you can!
Donations are doubled for one week only 👇
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