A five-year study found that the animals slowed floodwaters and created a wetland habitat, which increased biodiversity ...

More than 400 years after it was hunted to extinction in the UK, the Eurasian beaver is back. The Scottish Government has officially recognised the animals as a native species again, thanks to the ...

Beavers will soon be released into waterways in England under a new scheme launched on Friday, signaling a return to the wild for an animal once hunted to extinction. It's a win for wildlife ...

Beavers are slowing rivers, trapping carbon and bringing wildlife back, even as their dams become the subject of political ...

England officials promised to reintroduce Eurasian beavers to the country. However, after a successful starter release in Dorset in March, reintroduction efforts have suddenly stalled. Despite 40 ...

The Eurasian beaver is easy to miss—about 4.5 feet long, weighing 30 to 75 pounds—but its engineering skills are impossible to ignore. “It can take down a one-meter-wide oak tree in just a few nights, ...