This was old-ish news, but it’s too cute not to share in it’s own article. Thanks to https://lemmy.world/u/Ooops@feddit.org for the link.
Bóbr kurwa… uh, actually bobr kurva, I guess?
There’s even a Wikipedia article on this lol
Paying 1.2 mill for what 8 beavers can do makes you think how much our money actually worth.
That a damn impressive dam
I don’t give a dam.
That stopped my flow.
Apologies, but where I live it’s 9 o’clog. So it had to be done.
Yeah but they built that one in Sweden.
I recall this was done purposefully in… Wisconson? to help rejuvinate a failing creek bed. The engineers installed pseudo-beaver dams that would only last a season or two so beavers would see these and be all like “What the fuck is this shit?” and fix them up and start living there.
Unfortunately there are parts of Wisconsin where the beavers are met with metal traps around their den. You gotta protect that class I trout stream from nature, I guess
We need to be doing this everywhere
Stalling water helps teplesh freshwater sources underground.
As a species we spent centuries hunting/trapping them, and never tried to repopulate them because they still existed in some places.
Just the pope ruling that they were fish so they could be ate on Fridays had huge consequences for their population.
