Conservation grazing and beavers!!🌾🌿
In Episode 3 of Surrey Uncommon, we return to Horsell Common to explore some of the fascinating nature based approaches being used to safeguard our local environment. This episode dives into the crucial role that #ecosystem engineers play in shaping and sustaining healthy habitats. Grazing animals are much more than livestock; they’re active landscape managers. Through their feeding, trampling, and movement, these animals help maintain the open, low-nutrient conditions that heathland plants and animals depend on.
We also delve into another exciting possibility for restoring nature in Surrey: the reintroduction of beavers. Eurasian beavers, long extinct in England due to historical hunting, are now being considered for reintroduction as part of a growing movement to bring nature’s original engineers back to our rivers.
4 quick facts about beavers from WWF 🦫
- Beavers are around 70-100cm long with a tail of 30-40cm. They have stocky bodies, short legs with webbed toes and flat hairless tails.
- Beavers feed entirely on plants, including tree bark and other vegetation on land and in the water. They stash away food in the autumn to see them through the winter.
- Beavers can swim at speeds of up to five miles per hour. That is more than double the speed of the average human!
- Beaver populations are now rapidly expanding across Europe, mainly due to hunting bans and reintroduction programmes. Beavers have been successfully reintroduced in at least 25 European countries.
Watch episode 3 🎬
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