Have you been reading about the London beavers? Every day they are making headlines in the UK and now their on our Weather Channel.

400 years after extinction, beavers return to major city to combat flood concerns

Despite the cheeky names — Sigourney Beaver and Justin Beaver — given to the two beavers released, officials have high hopes for the rodent pair. Could they be the answer to battle life-threatening flash floods?

Beavers haven’t roamed the streams and woods of London since the days of William Shakespeare. But after over 400 years of extinction, the rodents are being reintroduced to the United Kingdom capital in a “quite emotional” moment.

A pair of beavers, temporarily named Justin Beaver and Sigourney Beaver, were released into a designed enclosure on Forty Hall Farm in Enfield on March 17. The beavers are part of a two-year plan by Enfield Council to combat the increase in major flash floods that have plagued the city in recent years. (more…)