A podcast episode highlights a Scottish documentary about beavers being reintroduced to a dying river, detailing how their dam-building restored ecosystems, improved water retention, and unexpectedly benefited salmon populations despite initial conflict with farmers.
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so this little documentary is only about 15 minutes. I can't see because it's all white at the moment. Yeah, 13, 14 minutes. And it tells the story of how man... people people's basically hunted hunted um beavers into oblivion and then what happened was things like you know there's a picture for you like rivers became to they they flowed more quickly which of course which of course meant erosion happened more quickly and all these things and they ended up because because um i'll find your picture because obviously when beavers build dams that turns the ecosystem into a what do you call it like in a garden stepping down slows everything down and so there was this group that's been quite a long time trying to um ask if they could there you go there's a beaver dam they negotiated releasing these beavers back into the wild And what happened was they started building dams, all of a sudden the salmon farmers started kicking off because, of course, salmon swim upriver. and this is going to impact their life and they started this to and fro with the salmon farmers and they did some research and they found that actually because the little baby salmon could now rest on the way up and that the dams weren't actually dams because there's lots of gaps in them to get through the salmon that were swimming up river and the ones that were born up river were actually ending up being bigger than the other ones anyway there's all this stuff that it just turned Yeah, and things like the region that they released these in weren't getting droughts anymore because the dams were holding the water and the water was hanging around and it would soak into the ground more. It was just fascinating that us stupid biped mammals come in and go, whoa, that's a good looking hat. animal takes out and basically they ruin their ecology 11 beavers turned basically a wasteland of a river and a riverbed and a stream into within a few years back to what it was probably a thousand years ago really really really worth watching
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