Book your tickets to #BeaversAcrossBritain! Learn more about the science, practice and policy behind the restoration of Britain’s beavers. A limited number of tickets are still available 👇 beavertrustevents.org#BeaversAcrossBritain 🗓️ 20 - 21 May 📍 Civic Centre, Newcastle

Joining us at Beavers Across Britain? Our dedicated feed is now live for delegates to share ideas, resources and reflections throughout the event. Pin the feed and introduce yourself 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mebafwe4sa5za4ky37p36bjy/feed/BAB2026 Join the conversation using #BeaversAcrossBritain

Signalling through scent Now is peak scent-marking season for beavers, as dispersing youngsters seek territories, and families defend theirs. Scent mounds signal occupancy, reduce conflict and share clues on condition. Showing how social and communicative beavers are.

Curious to learn about beavers? Join a training session to explore the ecology and conservation Eurasian beaver. Whether you're building your knowledge or starting your wildlife journey, there’s something for everyone. Book your place 👇 beavertrust.org/events-training/

This is what collective action looks like! Although we didn’t quite meet our target, we were very close! A huge thank you to the amazing 226 people who donated in the last week; you’ve helped fund the restoration of our wildest engineers. Every donation, share and message helped get us here 🦫

We’re just £5,500 in donations away from reaching our target with two hours left - you can be the person who gets us over the line! If each person reading this gave just £1, it could get us there. That’s the power of collective action 👇 https://ow.ly/LpCw50YRzQ9

Less than 24 hours left! Donate today and your gift is doubled: ⥤ Twice the beavers ⥤ Twice the biodiversity ⥤ Twice the natural flood defence ⥤ Twice the impact for climate resilience Match funding ends at midday tomorrow, please donate now 👇 https://bit.ly/4cYMaJY

You’re not just funding dams, you’re funding climate resilience 🦫 🌿 If each of our followers here donated just £20, it would add £26,400 to our total & we would be closer to reaching our target! Until midday on Wednesday, every donation will be doubled 👇 https://bit.ly/4cYMaJY

Just halfway through #EarthRaise, and our wonderful community is already making an incredible impact - thank you! 🦫 Right now, your power to help is doubled! Match funders are doubling donations, so £1 becomes £2, £10 becomes £20 and £50 becomes £100 👇 https://bit.ly/4cYMaJY

Beavers are nature’s best engineers, but they need us to get behind them. By donating today, you’re supporting beavers and all that comes with them: returning wildlife, mood-boosting wetlands and climate resilient landscapes. Donate here👇 https://bit.ly/4cYMaJY #mammals #nature

Bring beavers back to Britain? Yes, you can! If you can support them, we will see revitalised landscapes resilient to both flooding and drought, and rivers and wetlands bursting with new life. #EarthRaise donations are doubled for one week only 👇 https://ow.ly/LfLi50YOwnw#EarthRaise

For the final episode of Series 9 of #TheLodgeCast, we’re heading to Kent with Ben Morris and James Dilnot 🦫 They work at the intersection of conservation, water management and expanding wild beaver populations in highly managed, low-lying catchments. 🎧 Listen now https://tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

This #EarthDay, you can return beavers to Britain and restore our landscapes. For one week, your donation will be doubled, so please donate today. Your donation + beavers = thriving, regenerated landscapes 👇 https://ow.ly/Cbsf50YNRWb#EarthDay #EarthRaise #EarthDay2026

Just one month to go! 🦫 Beavers Across Britain is coming to Newcastle on 20–21 May, and we will be joined by three fantastic keynote speakers. Only a small number of tickets remain👇 https://beavertrustevents.org/ With thanks to Forestry England and the Cairngorms National Park for their support.

🦫 The last instalment of our 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 series shows the moment a beaver family is released into a new home. This outcome was made possible by a local community choosing to welcome and live alongside them – reflecting a more hopeful future for both beavers and people in Scotland.

Next week, you can make double the impact 🦫 Generous supporters will be matching donations, meaning each penny you donate will be doubled! To be notified when the campaign goes live, please fill out the form below 👇 https://beavertrust.beaconforms.com/form/825462f0

It’s the perfect time for a nature walk, but if you want to see beavers, remember the Beaver Code: 🤫 Keep quiet 🔍 Know the signs 🔭 Take binoculars 🥾 Stick to the path Beavers can be tolerant of humans, but it’s important to give them space. Visit: tinyurl.com/mvkd7r9f to find beavers.

For this episode of The Lodge Cast, we’re joined by Bevis Watts and Jen Robertson 🦫 From quiet lockdown sightings to a nationally recognised population, Bevis and Jen have been closely involved in the return of wild beavers to the River Avon. 🎧 Listen now https://tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

Our education programme is growing! Now in its second year, our National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project has expanded into Scotland, with our Education Officer delivering sessions at Doune Primary School, showing how we use beavers to inspire children. 1/5

For episode two of Series 9 of #TheLodgeCast, we head to Knapdale with Oly Armstrong 🦫 A wildlife ranger and co-founder of the Heart of Argyll Wildlife Organisation, Oly has had a front-row seat to Scotland’s longest-running legal beaver population. 🎧 Listen now https://tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

Join our Communications Manager Elliot as he helps translocate a local beaver family with an unusual home! 🦫

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay Beaver Trust is a registered charity dedicated to restoring beavers to regenerate our landscapes. Find out more about our work and this incredible keystone species on our website 👇 https://beavertrust.org/#InternationalBeaverDay #RestoringBeavers #RegeneratingLandscapes #Mammals

Becoming beaver ready! Yesterday, we released guidance in collaboration with The Wildlife Trusts setting out the support and funding needed in England to ensure farmers, landowners and beavers can thrive together. Read more, and find the guidance here👇 tinyurl.com/4uwh6dt2

To start Series 9 of #TheLodgeCast #podcast, we head to Argaty Red Kites with Tom Bowser & our new co-host, Alana Skilbeck 🪁 As the first private landowner in Scotland to release beavers into the wild, Tom has had a front-row seat to their return. 🎧 Listen now https://tr.ee/5ZvVzeWPzw

Beavers dont kill trees, they coppice them. Here are two trees that have been beavered at Bathampton Meadows (just down the river from Warleigh Nature Reserve) that people have been worried were “killed” that are both still growing happily. Let’s talk about it.

What does living with beavers look like on longer time scales? #TheLodgeCast is back with a new series connecting with the pioneers who have gone beyond the trial period and learning from communities that have been coexisting with beavers for over five years.

We’re looking for a new Policy Officer to join our team, to help Beaver Trust influence national policies and strategies that enable the restoration of beavers, rivers and wetlands. 📅 Applications close 9am, Monday 20th April 2026 👉 https://beavertrust.org/our-mission/vacancies/

Beavers dig canals as they rely on water for protection, and these channels let them travel further into the landscape, acting as quick escape routes from predators. They can also float heavy branches through canals, saving energy and accessing food up to 100 metres away. 1/6

As beavers return, we’re re-learning how to co-exist. One challenge we face is the risk of conflict with existing land management practices, but research shows this can be reduced by giving rivers more space. Ask your Holyrood candidates to reform rural payments to support river corridors. 👇

Yesterday, we were thrilled to release a pair of beavers into Forestry and Land Scotland’s Loch Morlich. This is an exciting step in establishing a wild population in the Spey catchment, under licence from @naturescot.bsky.social, realising the vision set out in Scotland’s Beaver Strategy. 1/4

Dr Rachel Malison from the University of Montana's @umflbs.bsky.social explains how beaver dams influence habitat, food resources, growth and movement of juvenile Atlantic salmon and trout across three paired beaver-dammed and beaver-free tributaries of key salmon rivers in central Norway. 1/4

Beavers are no longer a future possibility – they’re shaping rivers & catchments across Britain. For those in conservation, land management & environmental policy, the focus is now on working alongside them. Find out more about #BeaversAcrossBritain from @beavertrust.org 👇 c-js.uk/3N5gqbZ

Could beavers help create habitat for one of Britain’s rarest breeding birds? 🦫 While thousands of green sandpipers migrate across the UK each year, fewer than ten pairs are thought to breed here. 1/2

Poster submissions for Beavers Across Britain close soon! This is the last chance to share your research. Submissions close on 15th March. Organised by Beaver Trust, supported by Cairngorms National Park and Forestry England 👇 https://tinyurl.com/2rnjcefw #BeaversAcrossBritain #Mammals

What a thrill, my first 🇬🇧 Beavers! Saw two along the River Stour east of Fordwich, Kent this evening - located in the darkness by the loud wood-munching sounds! #ukmammals #uknature

Today, full legal protection has been granted in Wales and beavers are recognised as a native species by the Welsh Government. This brings Wales in line with Scotland & England, ensuring cross-border consistency. Find out more 👇 1/4 beavertrust.org/historic-mom...

Dr Richard Young has begun his role as CEO of Beaver Trust! Richard says “I’m thrilled to join Beaver Trust, and I see the large-scale restoration of beavers as a generational opportunity to have a transformative impact on nature and climate change resilience.” 1/3

Our support for both ‘Making Space for Water’ (#MS4W) and Wildlife and Countryside Link’s ‘Clean Water Now’ campaign reflects a shared vision: restored rivers that are clean, healthy and functioning naturally. 1/5

Beavers have been released at Boothby Wildland 🦫 It has been wonderful to support Nattergal on this release. Our feasibility assessment showed that Boothby Wildland has the space, hydrology and long-term management commitment needed to support beavers successfully. 1/3

Regenerating landscapes In Knapdale, below one of the original Scottish Beaver Trial sites, a former commercial forestry block has been transformed into a thriving wetland by Forestry and Land Scotland and beavers working together. 🦫🌿 [1/5]

The International Beaver Knowledge Hub is live! As beavers return to Europe, we have a shared responsibility to learn from each other. From coexistence to policy; collaboration, evidence and knowledge exchange are essential to support successful, long-term restoration. 1/3

In her blog, Sandra reflects on her time as CEO. “As I prepare to step away from my role as Beaver Trust's CEO, I have found myself reflecting on [Beaver Trust’s] achievements, as well as some of my personal highlights. “ Read more👇 https://beavertrust.org/four-years-of-progress/

Orphaned beaver and his partner released into the wild! Turnip and Parsnip, two young beavers from the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, who became a pair after Beaver Trust “match-made” them, were released into the wild in Cornwall on Friday. 1/4

Yesterday, the @nationaltrust.org.uk released a family group and a pair of Eurasian beavers at two sites as part of a wider release across the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset. This is the second licensed wild release by the National Trust, following the first in Dorset last year.

We assisted Cornwall Wildlife Trust with Cornwall’s first licensed wild beaver release yesterday! Four pairs have been released after three years of planning and consultation. The beavers will help to restore waterways, improve biodiversity, and increase climate resilience. [1/3]

It was wonderful to hear beavers championed in a parliamentary debate on protecting and restoring rivers. MPs Lloyd Hatton and @richardfoordld.bsky.social made important points about beaver restoration, the role of stakeholder engagement, and the need for more government funding for farmers.

Did you know that beavers can achieve one of the hardest parts of river restoration work reconnecting a waterway to its floodplain, in some cases faster than humans can. Hear Dame Joanna Lumley explain how beaver damming can restore incised streams. [1/5]

Poster submissions for Beavers Across Britain are open! Have you got research to share? This is your chance! We provide the board; you bring the poster, buy a ticket and attend. Organised by Beaver Trust, supported by Cairngorms National Park and Forestry England. 👇 https://ow.ly/j5Mu50Y5iBK

Do you know the difference between a beaver and a coypu? They may look similar, but they’re from opposite sides of the world. Often, photos of coypu are misidentified as beavers in the media. Once you know the difference, see if you can spot them. [1/3] #mammals #wildlife #beavers

Beavers are back at Mapperton Estate! After a short stay at Flamingo Land, Chip and Willow were released just in time for Christmas. To find out more about Chip and Willow’s release, watch Mapperton’s full video👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyUBwwdFDVQ