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He added: “Now it takes hours for it to percolate through each dam and it’s worked. The second winter that they were here, there was no flooding downstream. <\/p>\n

“Third winter which has just passed, no flooding has occurred in that targeted zone downstream.”<\/p>\n

Beavers, nature’s engineers, were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago, prized for their fur, meat and scent glands. They returned to Ealing in 2023, and have been reshaping the landscape ever since.<\/p>\n

Since their reintroduction to London three years ago, the colony has been prospering. <\/p>\n

The kits born last week appear in the evening and local residents in Paradise Fields have been gathering with cameras to film the mother and her babies after dark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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He added: “Now it takes hours for it to percolate through each dam and it’s worked. The second winter that they were here, there was no flooding downstream. “Third winter which has just passed, no flooding has occurred in that targeted zone downstream.” Beavers, nature’s engineers, were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago, prized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[7275,13748,4392,1644,2602,424,484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79092,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79090\/revisions\/79092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}