Beavers have returned to Northumberland for the first time in around 400 years.
The family of four have been introduced at the National Trust’s Wallington estate. as part of plans to boost wildlife and increase the landscape’s resilience to a changing climate. The project has been funded by the Reece Foundation, whose chairperson Anne Reece said: “We hope this is the start of many such reintroductions throughout the North East.”
Beavers were once a mainstay of British rivers but became extinct in the 16th century due to being hunted for their fur, meat and scent glands. In recent years, they have been reintroduced at a growing number of sites in Britain.
