Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): The beaver is a gentle, retiring creature. He's a rodent lumberjack and he's OK: he works all night and he sleeps all day. And he makes a lovely waterproof hat. But this shy herbivore has now become the focus of a ferocious battle, at the very moment the wild beaver is returning to these...

Times (UK): You do not need the skills of a Native American tracker to spot the telltale signs that a beaver is on the loose in Devon. Even a shortsighted hack in a woolly hat could find them. The first clue was a tree stump three feet wide that looked as if it had been gnawed by a giant rodent. Tha...

Times (UK): You do not need the skills of a Native American tracker to spot the telltale signs that a beaver is on the loose in Devon. Even a shortsighted hack in a woolly hat could find them. The first clue was a tree stump three feet wide that looked as if it had been gnawed by a giant rodent. Tha...

BBC: A beaver that has been felling trees after escaping from a farm is being hunted by conservationists. The beaver is one of three that broke out of the farm in Lifton, Devon, in October, owner Derek Gow said. The other two have since been re-captured. The last six-stone (38kg) animal is believed ...

BBC: A beaver that has been felling trees after escaping from a farm is being hunted by conservationists. The beaver is one of three that broke out of the farm in Lifton, Devon, in October, owner Derek Gow said. The other two have since been re-captured. The last six-stone (38kg) animal is believed ...

BBC: Plans are in the pipeline for beavers to be released into the Scottish wild for the first time in 500 years. Wildlife bodies have asked the Scottish Government for a licence to allow about 20 beavers to be set free in Argyll in 2009. The Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society ...

Herald: Opposition to plans to introduce beavers to Scotland is strongest around the proposed sites, although the move is welcomed by the wider population, according to a study. Almost three out of four people in mid-Argyll support the idea of reintroducing the beaver to the Knapdale Peninsula, howe...