Guess who’s holding next beaver conference?
The Scottish Wild Beaver Group is off and running, and ready to teach beaver benefits to all.
An exciting conference hosted by the Scottish Wild Beaver Group will be held in the heart of Scotland in March 2015 exploring the history and ecology of the beaver, their role in biodiversity and wetland management and how they can help us in flood prevention and ecotourism.
2015 will be a landmark year for the Scottish wild beaver as following the five year Scottish Beaver Trial the Scottish Government will make its decision later in 2015 on the reintroduction of this iconic species which was hunted to extinction some 400 years ago.
A range of speakers will be talking at the conference on the history of the beaver, their ecology and wetland management, ecosystem services that beavers provide and rewilding/flood catchment management.
We will look at lessons learned from managing beavers and farming in the Netherlands, the benefits that beavers have brought to ecotourism in Perthshire, and hear from delegates from both the Welsh Beaver Project and the Devon Wildlife Trust on their local beaver campaigns.
Maybe some day they’ll be beaver conferences and festivals all over? And you can plan you vacation around them. I’m not afraid to dream. Good luck to our Scottish cousins, and congratulations on this important next step.
Last night we did a beaver tour with Perla, Mike and their boys who drove up from Menlo Park. The beavers were no where to be seen on this longest night of the year, but the kids excitedly spotted a turtle and an egret. They were referred by Rick Lanman. It turns out Perla is the CEO and founder of this organization reviewing non profits so that funds and volunteer hours can be better applied.
The entire family had just watched the PBS documentary and were full of stories about Sherri Tippie and beavers being attracted to the sound of running water. We talked about the story and the benefits of beavers and did our best to get them excited about the beaver festival. But it is worth noting that GNP, by the way, has zero information at all about Worth A Dam, which is under the non-profit Inquiring Systems Inc, which also has zero reviews.
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