An award-winning Perthshire farm has been given a license to provide sanctuary for Tayside beavers following a landmark Scottish Government u-turn.
In a significant policy step, Argaty Red Kites has been granted Scotland’s first edge-of-range beaver translocation licence.Argaty, a working farm in Doune which is home to the award-winning red kite project, has been awarded a licence by the Scottish Government’s nature agency NatureScot for the release of two families and one pair of beavers, without the need for enclosure fencing.The beavers, famed as being “nature’s engineers” will be relocated from areas of prime agricultural land in Tayside where lethal control licences have been issued.They will be released on selected ponds at Argaty
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