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Britain to re-introduce beavers

Plans are afoot to reintroduce beavers, wildcats and wolves to habitats in Britain from which they have long disappeared. But is it right to offer a helpful human hand or is this immoral manmade meddling? The measures are aimed at restoring habitats and providing a more natural path to conservation. Wouldn't it be better to control the deer population in Scotland with wolves, rather than rely on man-made methods, the proponents suggest.

There is some resistance to this

Beavers have caused floods in forests, which means the forest may perish because of the excessive damp," says Kaarel Roht, senior specialist in the forest department at the Ministry of the Environment. "Beavers can also close drainage canals with dams to get the food, flooding big areas of land and hindering agriculture."

Being one of those idiots and masochists that likes going out in cold weather and shooting small furry animals with high powered weapons (ie: a hunter), I like the thought of the re-introduction of a natural species. Here in North Carolina, the wild turkey population has exploded to the point that there is now two seasons a year and it is pretty common to see one or two on the roadside. 10 years ago, there were no wild turkeys in NC.
As to the guy who complained in the article about that it was silly to re-introduce an animal that would have to be killed later, he forgot one thing. They are animals and they are meant to be killed and eaten, maybe with a nice salad and some snow peas.