Beavers return to Cairngorms after 400 years
Animals rehomed from Tayside as part of strategy to help tackle climate change
A male beaver makes its way into a loch after being released in the Cairngorms
ELLIOT MCCANDLESS/BEAVER TRUST
Beavers have returned to Scotland’s largest national park for the first time in 400 years.
Two pairs of Eurasian beavers were released at sites in the Upper River Spey in the Cairngorms National Park.
One pair was released on the Rothiemurchus Estate and the other on land owned by Wildland Cairngorms Ltd in the first translocations of their kind into the Cairngorms since the species was driven to extinction around 400 years ago.
The animals were rescued from parts of Tayside, where they were having a negative impact on prime agricultural land, and are now settling into their new homes.
The beaver is a “keystone species”, with the potential to help tackle the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss by changing and re-naturalising the
