Beaver population to grow at Trossachs site

Loch Ard Forest is set to become home to an additional pair of beavers following on from several successful releases at additional locations at the site over the last year

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A beaver heads into the water as part of a release in Loch Ard Forest (FLS)
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A beaver heads into the water as part of a release in Loch Ard Forest (FLS)

Working with the Beaver Trust, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) released the pair into a small lochan with good areas of wet woodland around the edge of the water and where there are currently no beavers...

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