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What is the European expereince of beaver reintroductions
Reintroductions and translocations of European beaver have now taken place in 24 European countries.
They began in the 1920s, e.g. in Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine and have continued in the 1980s and 1990s, e.g. in the Netherlands, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia and more recently in Spain. In some countries these releases have also been augmented by natural immigration.
Reintroduction to a country has usually involved release of animals over a number of years to several sites. They all seem to have been successful in terms of breeding, population growth and range expansion, except for some in France and Switzerland.
Over 150 reintroductions have now been undertaken across Europe, most without the detailed monitoring proposed in the current plan, but some have been thoroughly studied enabling scientists to predict with confidence the likely pattern of events post reintroduction.
The European experience is that beaver reintroductions are relatively simple and nearly always successful.