The DOWNSIDES of a BEAVER reintroduction!
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2021
- Discover the positives and negatives of reintroducing beavers across the UK. This includes how beavers prevent flooding but also how beavers may cause flooding, how beavers might stop fish migrations but also how beavers improve overall biodiversity.
The Eurasian beaver has been extinct in the UK for 400 years but things are changing. There has recently been a consultation in the UK to decide if beavers should be reintroduced and if beavers should be recognised as a native species and given legal protection. I take a fair look at how this may affect the countryside and the people and wildlife that rely on it.
#beaverreintroduction #beaver #rewilding
Some of the footage used in this video was obtained using creative commons licences, the originals and their licences can be found below.
• Beavers meet each othe... 2 captive beavers meet
• Yearling Beaver feedin... youngster eating vegetation
• Beavers at the Marchfe... various shots various quality
• Eating Beaver young good quality
• Yearling beaver foragi... good footage
• Adult Beaver Grooming ... beaver on bank
• Olympic Village Beaver... beaver in snow brief
• Biber frist Pestwurz .... eating in water
• Beaver (young and adul... some brilliant footage including baby
• Perthshire Beaver kit ... beaver kit swimming
• Scottish beaver swimmi... good footage of adult swimming
• Close up side view of ... Trail camera night footage
• Beaver Kit and Adult M... kit and adult playing
• Adult Beaver With Her ... adult and kit
• Adult Female Beaver Sw... adult swimming
• Video drone fly over wetland
• Drone footage of flood... flood drone
• PARROT BEBOP 1 DRONE B... waterways near town drone
• Gualin Estate and the ... highland waterways drone
• Henley on Thames in Drone good waterways drone footage
• York in 4K, a drone's ... city by river
• Scenic views River Ogm... various ground level waterways footage
• Flowing stream - 1080p... flowing stream
• Tření Pstruha obecného... trout underwater
• Connon Farms - Slurry tractor drone
• Pootling On the ASHBY ... canal drone
• A village disappeared!... man made dam
• Long flight over Derwe... epic drone footage
• Water Flowing 2017, Wa... water flowing
• Video smoky factory
• Dead trees underwater ... fallen tree
• Wild Shorts - My Favou... wildlife walk
• Video flooded farm
• Eels swimming across t... eel
• Beaver Walking On Ice walking on ice with tree
Thumbnail: Sylvain Haye, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons 
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I'm definitely on team beaver!
The ecological effect they have is clear
I welcome beavers at the expense of business, wildlife should be paramount
As much as I agree with the sentiment I don’t think it can ever work that way. Conservation needs to be financially viable to be sustainable and successful in my opinion.
Well preventing flooding is business and risk prevention
The benefits that beavers bring far outweigh the inconvenience. Beavers are the only Keystone Species capable of repairing the damage done to the countryside by humans and greed.
Great video mate. Currently writing a paper on reintroduction of beaver and its impact upon 'ecosystem services' and you've summed up pretty much all the major points.
I think one angle that is important to consider in contemporary UK is the increasingly apparent climate and biodiversity crisis. With the current trend for longer dry periods we are seeing extreme low flows in rivers such as the Wye and beaver habitat has been proven to aid in sustained base level flows due to the holding back and slow release of water as well as the recharging of aquafirs. Furthermore, the current appauling levels of pollution prevent both an opportunity and a barrier - the ponds are excellent at tracking sediments and minerals and sequestering them, resulting in far better water quality downstream. On the other hand, we have to look at the ethical stance of putting beavers into highly polluted areas to clean up mess rather than dealing with the source of pollution to stop it happening. Obviously, there is loads of threads off of that and I like yourself really think we should be reintroducing Beavers at scale.
In the UK there are always going to be big difficulties with reintroductions due to population, land tenure and public opinion, but I really hope they are here to stay and that we don't stop at Beavers!
Quite possible some native species that are threatened prefer habitat not modified by beavers. If known, keeping beaver from modifying at least some of that preferable habits may help, such threatened species future.
@@johnmead8437Beavers are a species native to the UK. They were hunted into extinction by greedy humans over 400 years ago. They belong here, and we need them.
There are so many nationwide now, there's no way they will be getting put back in their box.
Back in the 80’s my neighbor had an expansive lawn. Then the beavers showed up and he acquired an expansive pond that barely stopped at his back door.
Thank you Liam for your hard work in making these videos. 🙏👍
Thanks. It’s a labour of love!
This was so interesting to watch and listen to and I would love to see beavers make a comeback!
Thanks Liam. You have presented a well balanced documentary which has address questions that I've wanted answers to.
Thanks Ron, I'm glad to have been helpful. Cheers
Fantastic Liam !!!! Great as always!!-“always learn more about our British wildlife on your channel!!!! So grateful 👍👍👍
Thanks Craig. I hope things are good your end?
@@AShotOfWildlife Hi Liam ya all good 👍! I will do a voice text later on WhatsApp! Got some footage I want to send you !! Cheers again
I totally agree with you Liam. If beavers weren’t allowed to go extinct in the first place the development of the nation would of adapted to them and built around downstream areas as to not interfere with their habitats which could still exist today.
These are Lovely Animals, I spent a while in Devon looking for these Beauties. Note if you are looking for these animals they are nocturnal making it easier to spot them in the Summer Months when there is longer days.... often coming out before the sun comes down.
We have had beavers in east kent for a few years now, I regularly see them on the tidal kentish stour early morning and especailly evenings in summer, when it is quiter and less boat traffic, if I keep still they swim withinn 20 metres of me quite leisurely, they move through connecting marsh drains and lakes on the kentish flats We fisherman have been aware of them for years! Beaver numbers are definitely increasing down here, I just scream when I hear Chris Packham and others on TV ranting about introduction of "rare" beavers in Devon and Scotland, Our Kentish ones have been breeding and roaming about wild for years!!
Excellent, excellent, excellent! Despite the fact that you are, by your own admission, "pro" beaver reintroduction (like me), I felt that this was a balanced and very informative piece, covering the various issues from both sides. A big thumbs up from me!
By way of (technical) constructive critique, for your initial piece to camera your audio had a rather obvious fade-in, and you'd have done better to have shot it on an overcast day (I hate trying to film in sunny conditions). Your camera lens needs a clean and a lens hood would help. I feel like I'm nit-picking here because this was a brilliantly put together video. Well done mate! :-)
Thanks Graham. This was my fourth attempt at doing the bit to camera, I’m having some real technical issues at the moment. The autofocus won’t work with subjects beyond 5 metres away and I think he dust on the lens is on the inside :/
I think it might be time for me to get an upgrade. It only cost £200 about a year and a half ago so I don’t think it’s financially viable to get it fixed. Perhaps this is where my videos go 4K... lol.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback mate. I hope you are well?
@@AShotOfWildlife - I'm well thanks mate. Had a week in Hunstanton recently, so some videos coming soon from that week! If you are going 4K then I would think you'll need to beef up your PC hardware to cope with the increased demands for editing?
Thanks for the great video, a big help with my course work :)
What a fantastic educational video! Thanks Liam
Thank you. This video took a long while to put together so I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
Great film about the beavers Liam! We have them here too and there is even one in our little river in the middle of Gothenburg. I've heard about it for years but didn't get the chance to see it until some weeks ago. Unfortunately I wasn't able to film it. Greetings and have a nice day! // Bertil.
I live in northern canada and i had a beaver take down a tree in my front yard this year. He brought it down right on my dock in the middle of the night. Got super lucky it missed the boat.
So ya. they cause problems but i still love the little buggers.
Love your videos 😊
Thank you!
it would likely be best to keep them in certain areas and protect them there, while also enabling the relocation of those in troubled areas, plus other techniques like the beaver deceiver, im sure we can work this one out.
I'm a beaver believer! :)
Very good and informative. Beavers can do a lot to aleviate flooding
Beautiful and very informative video, nature can teach us a lot, it,s a shame businesses and Government,s don,t listen,, or take notice it,s a lot better to work with nature instead of going against it , definitely bring back the Beaver,s,
Pros= they build dams
Cons= they build dams
Yes, I could’ve just said that.
It would’ve been a bit of shorter video though.
Hi Great video, Cheshire has two beavers at Hatchmere. but these are nothing more than a zoo exhibit, being fenced into a 4.5 hector compound and not introduced back into the wild, but into captivity
The American west really misses its beavers. Dry climates should try to get more beaver to retain water. Wet climates with fertile farm land should have beaver in strategic areas.
I do not think beavers create a serious impediment to fish, from all of the other studies I have looked at, it appears fish thrive because of beaver dams; some of the problems are caused by farmers, trying to run a business, not doing too well and seeing their land impacted, resisting reintroduction, and/or the Victorians who straightened too many of our rivers without knowing the ecological consequences.
Here in North America, particularly the Pacific Northwest region where I live, migrating salmon are able to jump over or similarly navigate around beaver dams. As for whether the fish species in Britain can do likewise, I'd like to know what the scientists say.
Marmots should be introduced to the Scottish highlands
beaver dams help to oxygenate the water as it spills over the dam. Most salmon species can jump over the dams.As an experienced Canadian canoeist, dam are a very minor challenge.
What would its natural predator be?
In the absence of predation, how should the numbers be controlled to avoid the environmental damage that over population brings, as we see with deer?
It's most deadly predator would be humans. Humans were responsible for driving Beavers to extinction here over 400 years ago. If you want a wildlife predator, that would be the Wolf. But guess what.....humans drove them to extinction too, also around 400 years ago.
@@snowysnowyriveryes and they currently use traps. So inhumane.
perhaps if beaver was introduced to the headwaters of the Severn and Wye would help to prevent the flooding down stream and make life better for people in Worcester and Tewksbury
Increase in mosquito population and increase transmission of disease. UK may not have any/much mosquito born diseases, but international travel keeps the possibility alive. In the US this is more of a concern.
Beavers are amazing they keep the water where it should be in and around riverbeds!
Not when they damage flood banks and allow crops growing on riverside fields ( where the flattest , best land is usually found) to be destroyed by flooding. Potatoes and carrots don't survive flooding and these crops are harvested into the late autumn. We are supposed to be eating a more plant based diet !
Hi , can you introduce beavers in flash flood river beds?
Can't wait to see the wolves back in Scotland
Isn’t it proven in all ends that fish populations extend. And that salmon numbers go up when beavers arrive
Yes.....fish thrive wherever there are beavers.
I think it would be good for our rivers and wildlife but first we need to clean up the rivers- the pollution is bad for wildlife.
I will respectfully disagree about impeding fish migration. Study after study has shown that beaver dams rarely, if ever, impede fish migrations, however, they do increase smolt size and health before outmigration plus make very good nurseries for salmonoid species. Migratory fish evolved with beaver on pretty much every stream and as the bumper sticker says, "Beaver taught Salmon how to jump!" Not only can salmon jump over most beaver dams, most fish migrate upstream during periods of high water when beaver dams are easily bypassed due to flow around the dams. Eels actually benefit from beaver dams in that they form great habitat for them to grow old and put on weight before they start their out migration to spawn. In the US beaver are being used as habitat improvement for salmon and trout and where they are present we see healthier and larger smolts which inturn increases their chance of survival in the seas and tend to be larger when they spawn later on thereby producing higher egg numbers. *please note I wrote this before you addressed it at the end of the film.
Spot and well explained. There is no evidence that beavers impede fish. In fact the opposite is true.
Great content. I am definitely pro Beaver reintroduction as the benefits would far outweight the negatives imo.
I am also on tream Beaver
There are no downsides it’s how it should be, simple as. if we left it to farmers and gamekeepers we would have even less wildlife in this country than we already have, and compare to most European countries Britain is a barren desert void of much of the animal life that should be here.
Pro: massive ecological benefits
Cons: may slightly inconvenience some people
Flooding isn't a slight inconvenience
Flooding
good video but the beaver do far more good than harm the beaver taught the fish to jump thousand of years before the humans started pushing our agenda on mother earth for what we did to the beaver species for a hat i think we can give them some reparations to help them help us
There is just no need to reintroduce the bloody things.
I think Beavers are amazing and have seen them here in Berlin ,That being said I simply don't think England will be ideal .You are an enthusiast , me too but your average person after one incident will write them off as pests .They were wiped out once by the people please not a second time...Let the success be in Scotland...Watching WAF I never cease to wonder at the cruelty of enough.So
"No! to England This wonderful animal is shy , quiet and Scotland has been able to coexist ..If all were like you .Thanks Liam Great debate as usual 👍 Have a wonderful week .
Im a little perplexed as you seem vehemently against release in England. England has some fantastic wetland areas for Beavers and have/are being introduced through publicly funded projects such as the North London Projected funded by Enfield Council in partnership with Capel Manor College. I very much doubt people will be hunting Beavers for their fur or its gland in today's modern age... It's through the people's acceptance to reintroduce these animals back in their natural environment that they are doing so after all.