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‘Beaver-bombing’: unauthorised rodent releases on the rise in English rivers

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Beavers now live freely on river systems across swaths of southern England .

Conservationists are calling on Labour to allow official releases of free-living beavers.

Beavers are a native species with lots to offer in terms of landscape resilience, boosting biodiversity and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Beaver numbers are increasing in Scotland and are legally protected in England .

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey and the National Farmers’ Union held back release of the beaver.

Derek Gow , of Keep It Wild Trust , said: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be doing this right now.”.

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