Photo: Bohumil Fišer
Beavers bypass bureaucratic red tape to save taxpayers millions
BBC World Service
2025-03-29
Czech beavers made global headlines earlier this year when it emerged they’d saved taxpayers millions by building a series of dams that created an area of wetland – exactly what local authorities wanted to achieve with a project that had got bogged down in a legal dispute. The meadow – in the Brdy protected nature area – is now the perfect habitat for amphibians and rare crayfish.