No discoveries today, but some nice beaver news anyway. First stop is the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation where they have successfully introduced two beaver patients to each other and need funds to let the little one grow up for a while before release. There’s a lovely short clip on the news story that I can’t embed here, but here is the explanation from AIWC themselves. To help them help beavers donate by ‘adopting’ and adorable beaver toy! We are very happy they seem to be doing everything right in beaver introduction, care and release.
Now we’re off to the opposite side of the northern hemisphere where Rhode Island Public Radio has a nice story about the recovery of a landfill. My favorite part is when the USDA biologist describes his favorite place as a beaver pond and talks about beavers without wanting to kill them. (No really!) Of course they think the beaver returning is a sign of their success cleaning up the water, and don’t realize he’s the CAUSE of it. But it’s nice anyway.
