image for illustration: A Beaver eating dinner By NPS Photo / Emily Mesner – NPGallery, Public Domain, Commons Wikimedia
A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the protected landscape area, as local officials sought permits, reports Radio Prague International.
Radio Prague International writes:
… It saved the local authorities 30 million crowns, and has the public cracking jokes about public administration and red tape…
… Environmentalists who inspected the work say that the wetland and pools that the beavers created, will offer good conditions for the rare stone crayfish, frogs and other species…
However… occasionally… what suits them is not in the interests of humans. For example… beavers inadvertently flooded fields and waterlogged a nearby railway line/
