The discovery that beavers were living on the River Avon near Bristol for the first time in 400 years was remarkable enough - but now it’s been revealed that the man who discovered this is the boss of Bristol bank company Triodos.
Bevis Watts is the chief executive officer of the sustainable bank Triodos UK, which is based near College Green, and was taking a sabbatical from his role in 2021 when he made the startling discovery.
The banking boss has now written a book about what happened, recounting how he scoured the river between Bristol and Bath silently paddling a kayak, and eventually found where the secretive creatures were living.
