How seeing beavers making a comeback is giving us hope for a wilder future

The white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes is Britain’s only native crayfish. This small, olive-brown crustacean with pale undersides on its claws – hence its name – once thrived in the…

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust welcomes the Government’s decision to extend native species protected status to beavers, and agrees with the proposals outlined in the consultation to…

Aggie Thompson is an ecologist at Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. This summer and autumn, she has been busy carrying out dormice surveys and explains more about these rare and…

This international beaver day we are celebrating the effect beavers can have on downsteam communities.

Beavers are back in Britain, with upwards of 25 releases of these industrious rodents…

A quiet wildlife renaissance is happening, spearheaded by an animal that once defined the entire function of our wetlands and waterways. Hunted to extinction for its pelt in the 16th century we…