The European beaver was almost led to extinction during the 19th century, and then reintroduced as a protected species during the 20th century. What does the future hold?

The European beaver was hunted to extinction in the 19th century Finland. Nowadays, the study area is home to the American beaver, which was introduced there in the 1950s.

Crucially, it shows the European beaver has been strongly affected by expanding human populations for many thousands of years. The researchers say that centuries of hunting, ...

They are not, as the European beaver is more aggressive, makes dams with less frequency and is intensely monogamous. American women beavers on the other hand have the habit of “cheating” on ...

And it is here that the European beaver (Castor fiber) has been successfully reintroduced. Hunted to extinction over much of its range – it disappeared from Britain in the 16th century ...

The semi-aquatic, plant-loving European beaver (Castor fiber) was hunted to near extinction in the early 20th century, but three families of beavers from Norway were re-introduced in Argyll, ...

Conservation efforts in Spain led to a wild beaver crossing into Portugal, ending the animal’s 500-year-long absence, a video shows. Screengrab from Rewilding Europe's Facebook video As night ...

European beaver. Where & when to see them. Extinct in Britain, the beaver is to be re-introduced into a few lochs in Knapdale, Scotland this year.

For the past 20 years, conservationists in Spain worked to rehabilitate their European beaver populations and eventually noticed beavers living closer and closer to the border with Portugal, ...

The first beavers to be introduced into the wild in England for 400 years were on Thursday given permission to stay, in what campaigners hailed as a landmark move.

A rare Norwegian beaver is to be reintroduced to Britain for the first time in 400 years, in an attempt to revive the ecology of ancient wetland.