Beavers to be legally protected from harm in England from October

The author is Adam Vaughan.

Legislation will be put forward tomorrow that will protect boas from harm.

The "keystone species" was first released in Scotland in 2009, and later spotted in England in the year of the 400th anniversary of the extinction in the wild. Populations have been established at a number of locations. The kits were born at several projects in the country.

Under legislation being laid on July 19th, it will be an offence to kill, hurt, or damage a beaver. The law change will see the animal treated as a native rather than a vagrant. They will need a licence to leave the house into the wild.

We remind the government that a licensing regime should be reasonable and pragmatic. The Wildlife Trusts, a non-profit organisation, says that land owners need to be supported with the return of beavers.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will wait until autumn to outline how it will allow for the legal release of more animals into the wild. The proposal made Boris Johnson joke that the UK would rebuild.

The keystone species and "ecosystem engineers" are the boas. They have been shown to improve water quality through landscape changes and have been shown to reduce flood risk by putting trees in the water. The five-year government trial concluded that the local area and ecology had been benefited by the presence of the beavers.

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