LIVING WITH BEAVERS

Follow farmer Chris Jones and the Cornwall Wildlife Trust team as they travel to Bavaria, Germany to meet farmers and local residents living alongside beavers fifty years after they were reintroduced there. A film by Nina Constable.

[@robertfletcher3421]

I heard on the BBC News this morning that the River Otter beavers have got permanent residency status. Well done.

[@breAnnasmama]

Beavers are awesome!!!! If anyone disagrees .... I don’t give a “ DAM” haha ,‘sorry , I’ll let myself out 😂

[@terenceconnors9627]

We need programs like this throughout the contiguous US.

[@ianhjan]

Cheshire next hopefully.

[@catherines2544]

They're releasing them at Hatchmere nature reserve this month :)

[@HannahStitfallWildlife]

This film is so beautiful! Well done Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Nina, and everyone involved!! xxxx

[@hughfranklin4002]

These animals know what they are doing, they should be allowed to get on with there job and hopefully sort out the mess we have made of our waterways. Not only that they are cute.

[@hughanderson1438]

The narrator has a wonderful West Country accent, great video thanks!

[@NamooNara]

so heartwarming to see people doing amazing work, bringing these special creatures back 🤎

[@skathwoelya2935]

Proud to be a member of CWT! This is a beautiful video. Also giving hope for the future of Cornwall's wildlife heritage.

[@Nitka022]

Just beautiful! Thank you! Mazing creatures and doing so so much good!..Can't wait to hear that UK has beavers by their hundreds and everywhere!

[@tbz1551]

This is amazing! So proud of my national animal!! This also seems so surreal that they are not a part of your life in Europe. Beaver dams are not that uncommon in my world on the east coast of nova scotia. I regularly ride a mountain bike trail with a beaver dam featured twice per ride.. (not on, but just beside - you see them on occasion)

[@Jackson-pu7gd]

Beavers are awesome!

[@robinstevenson6690]

the beaver consultants rock !~~ ~ ~~~!!!!

[@peterblomme2007]

I love beavers!!

[@peterhaken7152]

Great documentary, ive had the privilage to have spent an evening at the new location near Ladock, seeding these beautiful mammels in their natural environment they have created is truly wonderful.

[@filmstudiosunnyroad3844]

Very good video about beavers!!!

[@beerbread]

I've been watching the reintroduction of beaver in Great Britain from across the pond. It's very exciting! They are amazing! While it's an oversimplification, I have read that removal of beaver created the dust bowl in the 1930's.

[@OutNAboutWithBrad]

Long live the Beaver!

[@andy199121]

great work! thankyou

[@robinellison]

Very lovely!

[@NinaConstable]

Thanks Robin :)

[@Mannyfresh23able]

Awesome way to restore the wetlands, im going to Germany to check it out ?

[@conniegilbert8512]

Beavers are awesome critters!!

[@jackmcmichael3560]

Fantastic theres hope

[@runefagereng6023]

Amazing and interesting!

[@TheParentalRevolution]

I love the German hippy.

[@RichardBirchett]

Awesome Video CWT, excellent work:-) So glad to be a member of such a great Organisation!

[@srwla2501]

Much love. We have fishing cats in South Asia

[@MegaDeepRoots]

Invaluable video. I've seen a lot of videos about beavers but this one addresses the concerns of farmers and landowners better than any other video I've seen so far. The obvious solution to getting beavers established throughout the UK ( & USA & elsewhere ) is to have beaver specialists in the area (and their phone numbers being given to all farmers and land owners in the area) that farmers and other land owners/users can call and get same day or next day responses from... so any trouble that arises for humans gets resolved quickly. Is this critical step being implemented in all areas where beavers are being considered for re-introduction in the UK/USA/other countries besides Bavaria? This is the most important piece of the puzzle to have in place prior to the beaver re-introductions taking place.... from where I'm sitting.

[@nicksadventuredocumentary]

Great video !!

[@peterdavidson3268]

Fantastic story, very informative and I hope to see the Beaver population expand across Cornwall (I live in Penzance). One minor negative - why oh why did the expedition to Bavaria go by plane - go by train, less damage to the environment!

[@tpp40]

In the beginning you map shows situation in Finland. In 1900 hundred information is correct because last one was shot in 1868. but not anymore. European Beaver Castor fiber was reintroduce round 1930 ties. It's current habitat covers aproximatly Satakunta province in southwest. Population estimated now 3000-4000 . But we have also strong population of Canadian Beaver Castor canadensis about 10000-19000 . It is brought here about to same time as European Beaver. Back then they did not know that those two are distinc species not even chance to crosbreeding which is good when think about current situation. Canadien species is spread all over Finland mostly east but also Lapland. Closest habitat to me is about 30 km. I am live near south end of lake Päijänne.

[@josemartinezgonzalez2450]

Buen video sobre el tema.

[@joedisco]

The video states beavers can have a mixed effect on fish populations - "both negative and positive". What are the negative effects, exactly? My understanding was that the effects are all positive, eg: improving water quality including oxygen levels, regulating flow, providing more "fish nursery" habitat and more varied habitat niches generally - so I'd question why you give the positive/negative effects equal weight?

[@joedisco]

ps. Apart from this, great work! So exciting to see and hopefully government will finally give the green light for more widespread reintroductions.

[@jhrdailies]

negative would be like.. clogs waterways up? 🙄 especially culverts xD! 🤣

[@joedisco]

@@jhrdailies what's that got to do with fish populations? And the "clogging" you refer to is actually slowing the flow - regulating the river, reducing peak flow (downstream floods) and retaining water for when there's drought.

[@ptmobile634]

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[@blakelowrey9620]

The one beaver guy sounds just like Jeorge Sprave

[@vnixned2]

Dear Cornwall Wildlife Trust, the German letter "ß" is not(!) a "B", it is a version of "S". Other than that, (yes, a minor nitpick) it's an amazing video and I can't wait to see more. Greetings from NL

[@guylewis7418]

How do you pronounce that? Is it pronounced like an “s”?

[@vnixned2]

@@guylewis7418 yes, it is an s, nothing more. It used to be a combination or so-called ligature of a long-s and a z, thesedays it's a double s pronounced as an s

[@guylewis7418]

@@vnixned2 thank you!

[@westaussie965]

Who cares about offending Germans, seriously 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ThungSilver]

Beaver help enveroment and earth.

[@cliffcampbell8827]

Beavers are great...right up until they make a dam close to a road and the pond starts to over it. I think it was a year after all the beaver were trapped out of existence in Arizona (so the British could have their beaver hats), that place experienced it's most damaging flood ever and people couldn't figure out why it happened.

[@josuana9936]

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[@josuana9936]

Diga algo juand I

[@novianovioTV]

Thanks. Humans are not natural protectors of the countryside. The greatest pressure on farmers is us lot in supermarkets greedily hunting for cheap food. Leave nature conservation to the experts: all other animals

[@NotAcvp3lla]

The Beaver Deceiver, give the man who named that device your finest Pony and a raise.

[@unclebenny9028]

12:21 LOL beaver deceiver!

[@radomane]

9:14 Please open up Google translate and double check how you pronounce Meßlinger.

[@tonychinnery]

The most important thing members of the public can do is to cut down on their consumption of meat and dairy. In Europe, 70% of land is dedicated to animal husbandry, a terribly inefficient, energy intensive and polluting way of feeding a nation. If we want to give more space for nature and cut back on land use for agriculture then cutting down on meat and dairy is the way to go.

[@westaussie965]

Beavers shouldn’t have to adapt to “modern farming methods.” Man are the ones who have bred out of control and use the landscape for meat production 😡

[@notdaveschannel9843]

This was a slightly more balanced documentary than I was expecting, but only slightly. You still needed to include people in Germany and other European countries who are less enamoured of beaver introductions, and talk to policy-makers and hydrologists. There is a big difference between the German policy and what they've introduced in Scotland (which may become the template for England and Wales). I don't think I'm creating a Straw Man by comparing the two. Even if you install a beaver-deceiver, they create wetland on habitat that didn't used to be wetland, that's their selling point as a flood control tool. And someone owns that land. In Germany you can get compensation for the damage beavers do to your land, sometimes people actually lease or sell the flooded land to Gvmnt Agencies or NGOs. This is not the case in Scotland. The Daily Record said, referring to Scottish Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham, "Questioned if compensation will be offered to farmers affected, she said it is not currently under discussion and instead they will be supported to manage the impact of beavers so compensation is not required." src: www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/beavers-scotland-added-european-protected-14159441 The Scottish Natural Heritage Website discusses their approach here: www.nature.scot/professional-advice/safeguarding-protected-areas-and-species/protected-species/protected-species-z-guide/protected-species-beaver/beaver-mitigation There is no mention of compensation. If the Environment Agency built a dam that flooded your land, you'd have recourse to legal action, if we follow Scotland's example, a beaver could do the same and you would be offered "mitigation techniques". It's not just farmers, it's anyone who owns property next to a watercourse narrow enough to be beaver habitat. This could include vital infrastructure where other government agencies get involved. There is another problem. Beavers don't situate their dams in line with any flood protection strategy. They may put them in the wrong place, as shown in this article: www.huffpost.com/entry/beavers-killed-dams-flooding-framingham_n_5c158411e4b05d7e5d828ca7 Ultimately, if we reintroduce the beaver, at some point it will necessary to control their population. By which I mean trap and kill beavers. In Germany 2015, 1,435 beavers were culled (source: www.thelocal.de/20170216/why-bavarians-are-eating-beaver-with-their-beer) but the German public are a bit more grown-up about these things, if it happened here there would be death threats to the local residents involved. Bottom line. Rewilding should only happen if there is a clear public (human) benefit over and above a warm fuzzy feeling about charismatic animals, and a hard-headed appreciation of the possible consequences. I'm not implacably opposed to reintroducing beavers under the right circumstances (unlike Lynx) but I don't think it's currently a good idea.

[@TheCommono]

I'm afraid, you guys will have to go through a phase of 'struggle' to get it all done, including compensations. It's how our societies work apparently: costs are forced upon individuals or groups in many ways - if it's fields of farmers that are flooded because of beavers or families that struggle with the cost of masks etc etc etc. Very funny; www.thelocal.de/20170216/why-bavarians-are-eating-beaver-with-their-beer I just learned that I was born in 'Upper Palatinate' 😂

[@jhrdailies]

@@TheCommono Exactly! Especially when they jam things up by clogging things in culverts... Obviously, it is pretty annoying tho...

[@guylewis7418]

I’m in the US, and sometimes they can be pests. If they’re flooding someone’s fields, or they are flooding and destroying someone’s home, people will be justifiably angry. In these cases, they may have to be trapped or killed.

[@westaussie965]

Too bad, people don’t have priority, it’s everyone’s planet

[@jhg291]

This film is too unbalanced and feels like propaganda. I would prefer one that wasn't pushing for beavers and gave the negatives as much emphasis as the positives.

[@jhrdailies]

heh? Beavers are awesome.. 🤣🤣 while the fact they love to clog culverts up!!!.. Ironic!!!

[@jhrdailies]

also, their dams won't let fish pass out upstream... Wrong saying that they eat fish.. ofc not... but it's their Dam that's becoming a problem

[@guylewis7418]

@@jhrdailies believe it or not, trout can, eventually, get through them. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but they can. The trout pretty much evolved with the beaver.

[@babehnya69]

@@guylewis7418 lol, do you even watch post10 on what he said about beavers? He clearly said it in one of his video that they could actually harm the surrounding environment. They just makes more trees decaying since it's been long time submerged by their built-up ponds. Depending on where the terrain is, But I highly doubt if such case would ever beneficial, especially when it's located nearby on strategic humans environment or neighborhood.

[@jhrdailies]

@@babehnya69 that's literally what I'm gonna say 😂

[@jhrdailies]

@@guylewis7418 okay, now just look at the fact 1st, they're making a pond by utilize an existing culverts, first it would be a disaster when a storm come by and the drains are clogged, it could flooded the entire street and the surrounding neighborhood. And you wish that happens around at your hometown? 😂 2nd, about the fish, how? Their Dam (especially in culvert areas) are made to blocked waterways no matter what.. Even water passing through are usually only a small amount that could topple the weirs. In some case, a culvert is 5m high, 3m wide, and 7m long, they could literally clogged it which's absolutely insane. If so, how can fish could swims and come through that? Not even salmon could jump through its wall, highly doubt it since the wall itself preventing waters to actually properly flows right there 😅. This is why no wonder lots of people could say beaver is an insane builders, but at the same time also an egoistical creature (pretty much the same as us Human being) since they're actually modified and tailored the environment to be susceptible for their own comforts. 😌

[@KA-eu9sy]

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[@robinstevenson6690]

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