The changes beavers make can help land hold onto water and release it slowly, which eases flooding and stalls drought.

Cheryl Marriott, director of nature and people at the trust, said the animals could have a "transformational" impact on water ...

For the first time since the 16th century, beavers will roam wild in the wetlands of England after a historic release of two ...

This past week, beavers were legally released into the English countryside for the first time since they were hunted into ...

The first ever wild beavers have been released in a Dorset nature reserve, more than 400 years after their extinction in ...

Beavers certainly have an innate knack of finding the best spots for their dams in the wild, however. McCandless points to the example of a nature reserve in Scotland where they made a dam at the ...

The National Trust, which is behind the first licensed wild release of beavers in England's first "super national nature ...

As the largest rodent ever in North America, the giant beaver also would have existed with the first people ever to settle in ...

A pair of beavers have been reintroduced to a South Downs stream to help restore waterways and create a flourishing wildlife ...

Two pairs of the semi-aquatic animals, known as ‘ecosystem engineers’, are being released in Dorset on Wednesday afternoon.