A Guided Tour of the Cornwall Beaver Project

Join Chris Jones, ecologist, farmer and owner of the Cornwall Beaver Project (hosted by Beaver Trust, in partnership with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and University of Exeter), as he takes Cambridge Natural Sciences student and wildlife photographer Joshua Harris Wildlife on a personal tour of the beaver enclosure.
Grab a cuppa and tune into nature for the next 10 minutes, as you follow the story of this landmark restoration project in the heart of the beautiful Cornish valleys, against a backdrop of birdsong, woodland stirrings and rushing water...
For more info on all things beaver, head over to: beavertrust.org - we always love to hear from you! #beavers #bemorebeaver #naturelovers

[@johnfenn]

I have been seeing this guy with the stick in a great many videos. So nice to get a name to put with the face. Hi Chris. Well done mate. It is a great pity that Australia does not have beavers, as we have a great many rivers and streams that need to be returned to a natural state. So many farmers and land carers build what they call "leaky dams". Just what the beavers are doing for free.

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

This is brilliant, we need to set up beavers on all our rivers, from source to sea!

[@leroybabcock6652]

i love beavers

[@bobwatson957]

Great project. I really wish a similar thing was happening in Scotland.

[@harmoni4499]

That gentleman has lots of knowledge about ecology, an awesome ecologist! I don't understand some of his plans but sounds fantastic!

[@julianfbond1234]

Amazing, I would love to see beavers in our local river. fingers crossed one day :)

[@beavertrust]

Keep those fingers crossed!!

[@lisaschuster686]

Be careful what you wish for. I’ve known people who are driven insane by the flooding. 😄

[@functionalvanconversion4284]

Awesome! Real heros here and it proves you don't have to score a touchdown or blow something up to be one🙏.

[@philippesails4973]

I also want to study at Camrbidge! This landowner is a hero!

[@PacoOtis]

From here in the States we say congratulations and Bravo and such. This is an excellent video and we thank you for sharing it and wish you the very best! This is a breath of fresh air for Mother Nature!!

[@chooksaway]

Superb content, a very enjoyable watch. Thanks to all involved!

[@beavertrust]

So pleased you enjoyed it!

[@grantmccoy6739]

That was really fascinating. The environment itself was so beautiful, really unique and interesting. It's really nice to see how much of an impact they can have if allowed to live. It's a shame how humans can be so intolerable or unaware of nature's importance.

[@Nitka022]

What a beautiful place! This is a piece of paradise! And so much water everywhere! Beautiful viewing. Thank you for sharing..:-))

[@lyndaschroeder8117]

Sooooo great! Thank you!!

[@philipmiller2618]

I love Cornwall. I lived there for six years, near Newquay.

[@withvinayak]

Really enjoyed the video! Very informative and soothing!!

[@Stikkelsbær]

Wonderful. I would like to see so much more the British Isles become more like this.

[@williammcduff6531]

Great video it was mentioned about the volume of additional water being held within those dams which helps to mitigate during drought conditions. I'd be curious to know how much additional water is being stored in the surrounding ground as well as the water table also. Odds are much more than the amount above ground.

[@SIRHEYFORD]

As Josh said, we're so used to seeing our environment shaped by our own species. How refreshing to have a glimpse at what beavers will do if we share just 200 metres of watercourse!

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[@richardtrey4992]

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[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

Exactly

[@lisaschuster686]

I didn’t know there were beavers in the Old World!

[@mandydavidson6694]

Thank you both so much, this is amazing work . Wonderful.

[@sonyaparkin7841]

💚

[@choncord]

Can you please release some beaver here in the Rossendale Valley, up in Lancashire!! They would do an awesome job on our little rivers and streams.

[@wendyscott8425]

Having been a huge _Poldark_ fan, I visited beautiful Cornwall five years ago. Were there beavers back then? If there were, it's really too bad I didn't know about any of this. I would love to have been able to visit a beaver project. What an incredible solution to global warming, along with regenerative agriculture. Both give me great hope for the future since neither seems to take too many years before the magic happens.

[@Herogames2022]

To me it looks like at the Damm the Flowers mabey die but because of the Water Level around the Grass and Trees etc get so much more Water that they grow thick and big..

[@Dytex4]

definitely a city boy, in the country with trainers haha

[@tim256]

Can you explain why you would need, and be unable to get, a license for 2-3 pairs of beavers? Is this privately owned land?

[@raphlvlogs271]

any updates?

[@ritamariekelley4077]

Are they North American beavers?

[@alunmorgans]

Yes

[@elizabethhoeppner8881]

Need to do this in Canada. What a mess under Trudeau

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

Ya right. Because the Cons were such environmental stewards. LOL. Saw this actual process on the Nature of Things.

[@budle89]

Do you not have dragonflies in UK?

[@georginacox7292]

Yes

[@choncord]

Yes we do.

[@tedhampe3937]

Nature's gardeners at work and they ask for no $

[@rawbacon]

Chris looks like a cartoon character.

[@wattyler6075]

This will be a disaster. Ask the people on the Tay in Scotland,from my understanding the Scottish government are issuing permits to kill them because of damage being caused by the beavers activities.

[@Maurazio]

you just need to adapt the infrastructure and review maintenance plans, the experience is there in the US just need to import it. Also there's nothing bad with killing a few if they become too many, after all their natural predators have not yet been reintroduced.

[@audiosreality]

@@Maurazio Canadian here we wage wars on them in the rural municipalities. You can't adapt infrastructure faster then they adapt to adaptions. Culverts are blocked, flooding huge sections of land, Guards are made for the culverts and they just dam the guards. With our heavy clay based soils their dams are just that dams without much water getting through. The only way to keep a beaver from building on moving water is to ensure there are no trees in the area.

[@nicklang7670]

I am from Canada, we already have flooding thanks to some of our poorly engineered infrastructure. Also some flooding is a normal ecological process. We should not confuse climate change related events with normal environmental processes. Beavers might actually mitigate high levels of flooding. At least that is what was said in first part not the video, that water levels were down in the stream when flooding happens during high levels of rain. This is the first I have been shown beavers creating multiple dams up stream. Logically that would slow water down stream and result in less flooding there. Let nature do the work!

[@andywood5699]

The Beaver is the national symbol of Canada. They do create wetlands and wildlife soon follows. They are natures engineers. Good luck with your project.

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[@maxwalker1159]

Cool