The stream through western Alaska never looked like this before. In aerial photography from the 1980s, it wove cleanly through the tundra, thin as thread. Today, in satellite images, it appears as a string of black patches: one large pond after another, dozens of metres apart. It’s a transformation that is happening across the Arctic, […]
Tag: Beaver
‘Back where they belong’: Beavers released into California tribal waters in conservation effort
For the first time in almost 75 years, beavers were released into California waters as a part of conservation efforts by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Maidu Summit Consortium. A family of seven beavers swam their way through Tásmam Koyóm, a tribal community in Plumas County that are ancestral land to the […]
NASA Became “Beaver Believers” After Using Satellites To Measure Their Impact On US Rivers
NASA often brags about how innovation for space travel and exploration has provided the public with all sorts of downstream benefits, but they don’t typically mean that literally. Now however, NASA is teaming up with ranchers in Idaho to monitor beaver rewilding projects on small rivers, streams, and other watersheds by adding remote sensing data […]
Baby beaver sighting inspires hopes of a California comeback
Bill Leikam was reviewing footage from a wildlife camera he placed along a Palo Alto creekbed recently when something unfamiliar scampered across the screen. “I have enough experience with the wildlife out there to be able to identify every one of them just by their movement—this one had me baffled,” said Leikam, president and co-founder […]
Beavers to Be Reintroduced to English Wetlands After 400 Years
Native to England, Wales and Scotland, the Eurasian beaver was hunted to extinction in the 16th century, according to The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. But they have been slowly returning to England and conservationists say they are now being reintroduced to the Nene Wetlands nature reserve in Northamptonshire, England, for the first […]
Could rewilding animals turn Britain into a modern day JURASSIC PARK? How beavers, bison and wild boar could wreak havoc if they break free – and could even become DEADLY
Love it or hate it, rewilding is coming to the countryside near you. Beavers have been reintroduced to the UK since 2008 in a bid to restore natural environments, with the latest colony due to be set up in the London Borough of Ealing. Likewise, wild boar have already been let loose in the Forest […]
Wetsuits Modeled After Otters? Yup!
A few years back, it was reported that MIT had begun working on wetsuits modeled after otters. It’s actually a brilliant idea if you think about it. The animals’ fur and the oil from their skin keep them relatively dry and remarkably warm in frigid temperatures. Surfers and divers could benefit greatly from the suits. […]
From brown bears to grey wolves, Europe’s persecuted carnivores are bouncing back
In the latest of what can often seem like the “final nails in the coffin” of biodiversity across Europe, we heard in recent weeks that UK environmental protection is under threat. But while the global scale of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss remain alarming, vital new research, which I helped lead, shows there are […]