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Beavers

DWT has led beaver conservation projects in Devon for more than a decade. Learn about this work, where to see beavers in Devon, how we can help landowners where beavers are present and how we're working to secure the future of beavers in the wild.
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With your support

As 2025 draws to a close, Nick Bruce-White reviews a year in which your support has had big impacts for Devon’s wildlife.

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Beavers in the news

It’s been a noisy week for beavers in the media, but still not a lot of clarity about what their future will be.

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Support Devon Wildlife Trust

Join DWT as a member today and help to protect, restore and create wildlife-rich landscapes and bring more wildflowers, butterflies, birds and mammals back to Devon.
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Beavers in enclosures

Since 2011, DWT has run an Enclosed Beaver Project in western Devon. Find out how the beavers have changed the site and improved it for wildlife.
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Help Devon's Beavers

We urgently need to raise £28,000 to allow us to coordinate further licensed beaver reintroductions. Your donation will help us secure the future of a healthy beaver population here in Devon and…

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Our work with beavers

Find out about our ongoing work with wild beavers in Devon, and how we are helping beavers and people coexist peacefully.
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Beavers on your land

How to contact us if you need help with beavers on your land or are interested in beaver re-introductions.
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Making space for beavers

Find out about the Making Space for Water programme as part of our work for beavers in Devon.
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Beaver

Beavers are the engineers of the animal world, creating wetlands where wildlife can thrive. After a 400-year absence, beavers are back in Britain!

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Beavers are coming home!

The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in…