"The Scottish Government will actively support the expansion of the beaver population, promoting translocation, which involves safely trapping and moving beavers to a more suitable area." www.gov.scot/news/protecting-scotlands-beaver-population/ 24 Nov 2021
- instead of shooting them!
"The Government’s previous refusal to allow beavers to be relocated to new areas of Scotland, even though NatureScot has identified over 100,000 hectares of habitat, had left Tayside farmers whose crops are damaged by beavers with little option but to apply for a culling licence.
Since the Government legally protected beavers in 2019, its nature agency NatureScot has allowed over 200 beavers to be killed under license – despite laws under which beavers are a protected species which should not be killed unless there is no satisfactory alternative." treesforlife.org.uk/breakthrough-for-scotlands-beavers-a-win-for-nature-climate-and-farmers/
Old sayings with a theme 2 ( continuing *nanna8*'s thread)
