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Beaver dam in winter

Beaver Blog January 2024

Take a look at the Dorset Beaver Project site in all its wintry glory as Assistant Conservation Officer, Colleen Smith-Moore describes how beaver beahviour changes in the winter months.

Beaver felled willow tree

Beaver Blog November 2022

As winter approaches, find out how the beavers at the Dorset Beaver Project site are preparing for the cold months ahead.

Common toad sheltering in a beaver dam

Beaver Blog August 2022

As we experience increasingly dry summers, droughts are likely to become a regular occurrence in the UK. Beavers could be the solution to combatting future water shortages, benefitting both humans…

Beaver felled willow tree

Beaver Blog

Beavers have been back in Dorset for over a year and we are learning about their habits now that they have experienced a full cycle of Dorset's seasons. Steve Oliver reports on what they…

Beaver enclosure

Beaver Blog

Dorset's beavers have really got to work on making themselves at home and, using trail cameras, we are able to share wonderful footage of the beavers hard at work constructing dams to create…

Photo showing two people electro fishing on the Corfe River

Electro fishing on the Corfe River

An important part of monitoring and improving the health of a river is monitoring the fish population and a recent survey of the Corfe River discovered five different species, some of which are…

Wetland

Beaver Blog - November 2021

On 8 February 2021, a pair of adult beavers were released into an enclosed site in West Dorset as part of a scientific study looking at the impacts that beavers have on their environment. Project…