Beneath the Baobab
Back Home With Scotland's Beaver Population
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In this final episode of the series, presenter Gordon Buchanan heads home to Scotland to see the work that the Beaver Trust is leading to “regenerate the beaver species to regenerate the landscape”.
The Beaver Trust is a charity working to restore animals to habitats where they thrived in the past, building climate resilient landscapes across the UK and we speak to Elliot McCandless from the charity. We also chat to Tom, a fifth-generation farmer on the land but with a very different role to his predecessors.
Our conversations take place, thousands of miles away from the baobab – but with similar ambitions, challenges and conflicts to navigate.
We spoke to both Elliot and Tom alongside the mud banks of a beaver lake, home to the second family of beavers that were brought to Tom’s land in February 2022. Translocation and reintroduction of the species in Scotland brings its own controversies with conservationists, farmers, government and local people holding different perspectives on the beaver population as we’ll explore in this episode.
Whilst this is the last episode of series 2, we will be publishing a special bonus edition of Beneath The Baobab in the coming weeks, bringing together all the key points and fascinating conversations from the last 9 programmes.
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The video of this episode can be seen here: https://youtu.be/5FOfzoGgy48
https://beavertrust.org/nature-boost-in-perthshire-as-second-group-of-beavers-moved-to-argaty/
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