Great piece in the Guardian crediting beavers, reintroduced to the Knapdale rainforest in western Scotland in 2009, with creating the perfect conditions for the reintroduction of one of the country’s most endangered mammals, the water vole. 

The beavers’ dam-building is reshaping the forest and its waterways, creating just the right type of riverbank for water voles to flourish. 

“The human creation of wetlands is an extremely costly undertaking and, frankly, we’re not as good at it as beavers,” wildlife ranger Pete Creech told the Guardian.

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