Download e-book for kindle: The Eurasian Beaver by Róisín Campbell-Palmer,Derek Gow,Robert Needham,Simon

The Eurasian beaver used to be close to extinction at the beginning of the 20 th century, hunted throughout Europe for its fur, meat and castoreum. yet now the beaver is close to a comeback, with wild beaver populations, authorized and unlicensed, rising in all places Britain.

As a keystone species, the beaver performs a necessary function within the production of sustainable wetland habitats via its damming actions, delivering residing possibilities for a vast spectrum of flora and fauna. but as proposals for reintroducing beavers are underway, re-establishing the beaver in Britain continues to be a arguable issue.

This booklet provides a case for our destiny coexistence with beavers through offering real details in this species that has now handed from nationwide reminiscence, overlaying the biology, behaviour and ecology of the Eurasian beaver in a British context, from their early background in archaeology and folklore to their modern box symptoms within the wild. This booklet familiarises readers once more, after nearly four hundred years of its absence, with the Eurasian beaver, offering crucial info on its requisites in our human ruled landscape.

This publication is for people with a selected curiosity in beavers and their reintroduction, and for an individual with a common interest in traditional historical past, ecology or animal behaviour. it may be used as a box consultant to spot beaver box symptoms and realize beavers within the wild by way of natural world surveyors or basic land clients, or as an introductory consultant for somebody with an curiosity in beavers and the way to realize them.

The authors were actively keen on the examine of beaver ecology, behaviour and reintroduction for a few years. they've got a first-hand wisdom of beavers in captivity and within the wild in either Britain and a variety of different ecu countries.