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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Mark Stephen meets Dr Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Head of Restoration at the Beaver Trust. They meet at the Argaty Beaver Project near Doune in Perthshire to discuss her love of the mammal and how the reintroduction of the species is progressing
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0:45.2 | I remember vividly, you know, we were sitting on a lovely part of the world, but very midgy and fested. |
0:51.1 | It must be said in our guile. |
0:53.1 | Lovely still summer evening. And yeah, so something very fluffy and buoyant popped up. And you take that moment because we knew they would come. We knew they would breed and they'd be absolutely fine. But we saw that kit emerge and, you know, we looked at each other and was it. It must be. Is it? And yeah, and it was. And it came out, swim along the shoreline, |
1:12.7 | very independent, immediately started feeding on Bracken. That's Dr. Roshin Campbell Palmer, |
1:18.9 | head of restoration at the Beaver Trust. Now, Rochene has played a major role in the reintroduction |
1:24.6 | of beavers right the way across the country, so much so that she's just |
1:28.2 | been recognised for her achievements by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. I'm Mark Stephen, |
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1:40.1 | Dune in Pelshire. So we've just kind of walked down this track and almost immediately we're seeing signs of beavers. |
1:47.4 | I guess there's nothing subtle about this species. |
1:50.0 | It's quite a large fell tree. |
1:51.9 | It's almost cartoonish, isn't it? |
1:53.6 | You know, the classic pencil-shaped stub. |
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