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In the Brda Landscape Park in the Czech Republic, water beavers built a dam in two days, completing a project to restore the area that the local government had been planning for several years, Czech media reported.
The project to restore the Klabava River was supposed to cost $1.2 million, and the project itself began in 2018. The State Forest Service, together with the Vltava Water Resources Department, had been negotiating for land ownership for a long time, but the beavers outstripped them.
The dam, built by beavers with the help of poplars, helped to de-water the area, saving 30 million crowns. However, the activity of water beavers has had a negative impact on some places: the dam flooded some areas and damaged the railway.
A similar situation occurred in the British city of Pickering in 2023. In three years, beavers built a large dam there, saving the city from flooding. Before that, the city had been suffering from floods for several years, and residents, believing that the beavers would find a solution to the situation, deliberately moved them to the forest.
It should be recalled that during the floods in Poland in 2010, the then head of the country's Interior Ministry, Jerzy Miller, blamed beavers for the incident. "The biggest enemy of dams is animals called beavers. They have taken over the area around the Vistula dam and are causing great damage to it," he said.
According to animal rights activists, at that time there were about 50,000 beavers living in the republic. After the floods, local governments doubled the quota allocated for catching these animals. Follow “Zamin” news on “Telegram”
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