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Beavers set for return to Wales for Ceredigion project

Beavers are to be re-introduced to the Welsh countryside for the first time in at least 900 years.

Ceredigion-based Wales Wild Land Foundation will create an enclosed habitat for a pair of European beavers at Artist's Valley, near Machynlleth.

Beavers lived in Wales until the 12th Century and the rest of Britain until the 16th Century but were hunted to extinction.

Gerald of Wales reported in 1188 that by then the river Teifi was its only habitat in Wales.

Scotland managed to hang onto its beavers - the last in the UK - until the 1600s and by the beginning of the 20th Century only a few colonies remained across Europe.

Successful reintroduction programmes have taken place in Scotland during the last few years....
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