Beavers released at Rushden Lakes nature reserve owned by Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. The Scottish beavers will make their home in a fenced enclosure near the River Nene.
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03:00Today we're going to be releasing eight beavers.
03:02They're coming from Scotland.
03:03The Beaver Trust are bringing them down
03:05and this is part of a reintroduction project.
03:07They're going to come and live here,
03:09a delta pit at Neame Wetlands.
03:11There's going to be a mum and a dad.
03:13The mum, named Boudica,
03:16she's apparently a bit of a fighter.
03:18She'd lost a leg when she was young in a fight,
03:21but she's battled on.
03:23And dad, Alan, named after a local funny man,
03:27Alan Carr, and six young,
03:31so three kits and then three yearlings,
03:33which are from the year before.
03:36And they're going to be introduced
03:38into this enclosure, 17 hectare enclosure,
03:42here at Neame Wetlands.
03:44And this fence surrounds Delta Pit,
03:47which is going to be their new home.
03:49And then we expect them to make a lodge
03:52and just start exploring their surroundings.
03:55And then what they'll probably do is,
03:58they eat trees, they gnaw trees and bark,
04:01and they will help us really to manage this habitat.
04:05So they'll be creating a kind of a diverse
04:08flora and fauna mix in here for us,
04:11which is what we'd have to do anyway in the long term.
04:13So they're really helping us to manage this habitat
04:16for nature.
04:18So members of the public will be able to walk past,
04:20they'll be able to see into the enclosure,
04:21and we'll have information boards all about it.
04:23We've got a visitor centre nearby,
04:25and we've got cameras inside the enclosure.
04:27So we're going to be sharing those clips
04:31on our website and our visitor centre.
04:33If you come along on any given day,
04:36you may not be able to see them because
04:38they are nocturnal and they are quite secretive.
04:40You may, you might be able to if you're lucky.
04:43But yeah, we've got to promise anyone
04:45who does definitely see them.
04:47But there's lots of opportunities that we're going to have
04:50to share video clips and stories all about them.
04:53So people will be able to follow their stories online.