Freedom for the Wild Beavers

Please sign and share this petition to save the first beavers who somehow managed to arrive in the UK and set up home. An article in the Guardian said...
The future looks gloomy for the first wild group of beavers to be spotted in England for around 500 years after the government revealed it intended to trap the dam-building critters.

To the delight of animal lovers, video footage proved the existence of a family of beavers apparently thriving in the River Otter in Devon earlier this year.

But the government announced on Monday that it was planning to capture the animals and find a new home for them in a zoo or wildlife park.

In a written parliamentary answer, George Eustice, a minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said: "We intend to recapture and rehome the wild beavers in Devon and are currently working out plans for the best way to do so. All decisions will be made with the welfare of the beavers in mind. There are no plans to cull beavers"

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