Make Way for Beavers
Beavers are being reintroduced in Britain as part of an initiative to combat climate change and flooding. In West London, a family of beavers has been relocated to an urban park where they have created a pond and wetland to absorb heavy rainfall. This project aims to enhance the area's resilience to flooding by utilizing the natural engineering skills of beavers.
- ▪Beavers are being used to help mitigate flooding caused by climate change in Britain.
- ▪A family of five beavers was relocated to a 20-acre urban park in West London.
- ▪The beavers have created a pond and wetland that absorbs heavy rainfall, reducing flood risk downstream.
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The beavers are part of an unlikely effort to bring back a vanished species and help Britain adapt to a very modern problem: climate change.Britain is famous for drizzle, but climate change is making rainfall heavier and more erratic. Places that didn’t used to flood are now waterlogged. So scientists have enlisted some of the animal kingdom’s best flood engineers — beavers — to help.In West London, conservationists got a government license to resettle a family of five beavers in a 20-acre urban park near the Greenford Tube station. It used to be a golf course, with a creek running through it. Within weeks, the beavers dammed up the creek, creating a pond that holds water and stops it from spilling into the city.
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