Scottish Wild Beaver Group
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Scottish Wild Beaver Group
@scotsbeavers.bsky.social
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for fellow beaver believers...? LOOK NO FURTHER! 🦫✨

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Browse our selection of fun totes and t-shirts.
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the UK, most agri-environment subsidy schemes support human pond creation, with little financial incentive for landowners to accommodate beaver wetlands, despite having a higher percentage of insects and species.

www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
An investigation by journalists at The Ferret found that local MSP and Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes, the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) and landowners had “privately piled pressure” on NatureScot to derail the application.

www.thenational.scot/comment/2558...
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The full Beaver Moon will rise in the UK on 5th November! 🦫✨

It will be the largest and brightest Moon this year 🌝
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"The push to farm all available land to produce as much food as possible during WW2 continues into the current subsidy system. Even when farmers want to leave marginal and hard-to-manage areas alone, the subsidy system drives them to keep fighting nature."
www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/alyth-voice/
September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
✨Last chance to book tickets!✨

🦫Beaver Trust production "Balancing the Scales"
📽️ THIS FRIDAY 25 July, 7.00 pm (start 7.30pm)
📍Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth

STAY after for a discussion panel of experts Q&A.

Admission is FREE
(donations welcome)

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
GUEST PANELIST ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨

Balancing the Scales
Friday 25 July, 7pm
Soutar Theatre, York Place, Perth

Panelists will include:

✨Paul Ramsay, of Bamff Estate,

✨Elliot McCandless, from Beaver Trust, and

✨Duncan Pepper, an aquatic ecologist !

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
EXCITING NEWS! 🦫

WHERE:
The Soutar Theatre (AK Bell Library), York Place, Perth ✨

WHEN:
Friday 25 July, 7.00 pm✨

WHAT:
A screening of Beaver Trust's film production "Balancing the Scales" will be shown! 🦫✨

Admission is FREE:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-scree...

Doors open 7.00 pm
June 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Who would have thought wildfires could come to Scotland? 🔥

Yet this year drought and fire have been very real issues.

Could beavers be used alongside agriculture in Scotland to help water retention and protect crops or livestock from wildfires? 👀💭

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
May 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It is disheartening to see Forbes halt this beaver license.

This seems to mark another example of ministerial appeasement of the NFUS at the expense of nature.

This raises serious questions about the government's committment to the Scottish biodiversity strategy.

theferret.scot/beaver-bid-b...
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wonderful new children's book by Catherine Ward with beautiful illustrations from Phoebe Roze.

✨BY THE BEAVER POOL✨

A touching story about accepting the flow of life, and the healing power of nature. With some fun beaver facts thrown in!

Available now!🦫✨
April 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not just a gripping tale about Scottish beavers  - but a really good example of rewilding in writing.

Available for pre-order now.

In bookshops from 1st May from birlinn.co.uk

Fantastic work Tom!

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April 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
✨🦫INTERNATIONAL BEAVER DAY!✨🦫

Beavers are multi-taskers who can help restore our rivers!

From upstream water retention to soil nutrient restoration, carbon sequestration to biodiversity enhancement...🦋🎣🐾

The list goes on!

To find out more please visit our website.

Photo credit: Dave Maric ©️
April 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
HAPPY WORLD REWILDING DAY!✨

Yesterday at Scotland's Nature Student Conference, we heard many fantastic talks on nature restoration, and many included... beavers! 🦫 ✨

Well done to Emily Simpson, a PhD student at the University of Stirling. She is studying wild beaver in Scotland.

#SNSC2025
March 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fantastic evening watching Beaver Trust's film "Balancing the Scales" on 14th March, 2025.

Well done to everyone involved, congratulations from everyone at SWBG 🦫✨

The secret is out - beavers are the key!🌱👀🎣🪵

#beavertrust #balancingthescales #rewildingscotland #rewilding
March 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Fab article below!

**We will have a stall at PERTH Museum, this Saturday (15th March) from 12-4pm in Gallery 3. Come say hello!**✨

**We will also be at the Scotland's Nature Student Conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens, EDINBURGH (18th & 19th March).**✨

theconversation.com/beavers-offe...
March 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The University of Stirling and Bamff Estate have been studying beaver impacts on our rivers.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2496503...
March 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Beavers have now been legally released in England (Purbeck, Dorset), without fencing or constraints, for the first time
✨🐾🦫
Huge congratulations to our friends at Beaver Trust for helping get this LONG overdue decision on beaver release in England over the line.

#rewildingbritain #rewilding
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Read our letter to Scotland's First Minister 👇
We suggest he familiarises himself with the widely recognised downstream flood prevention benefits of beavers, and remind him that there are many voters who welcome beavers 😀
www.scottishwildbeavers.org.uk/letter-to-jo...
[Photo credit: Rhona Forester]
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
World Wetland Day!✨🦫

Wetlands are an essential - and often abused - habitat.

They *should* be a common feature of the British landscape but they've been largely drained to make room for modern agriculture.

We know one creature that could bring them back! 🦫✨

#rewilding #scottishbeaver #beaver
February 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM