The Sunday Telegraph. "I think it would be amazing to have beavers and wildcats on my land." In October Boris Johnson actually gave his father, Stanley, a family of beavers for the river that runs through his Exmoor estate.
While Ben Goldsmith, who's a Defra board member, supports the introduction of beavers, not just at his own Somerset farm, but in town and city centres across Britain.Ruth Feltham looks after the south-eastern branch of woodlands.co.uk, the country's largest vendor of woodlands.
I asked her what she felt was behind this surge of interest in owning woods. "We saw a 500 per cent increase in sales last summer.
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