Beavers have been legally released at two sites in Somerset as part of efforts to restore a river and wetland.One release involved a mother and her three children, while the other involved a pair of Eurasian beavers.They were released across the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset on Tuesday.Beavers became extinct in Britain more than 400 years ago due to hunting for their pelts, meat and glands.Conservationists had long called for licensed wild returns to the English countryside, to boost wildlife in the UK.After years of wild reintroduction trials in the UK beavers were given legal protection in 2022.
