Photo: Bohumil Fišer
Beavers bypass bureaucratic red tape to save taxpayers millions
BBC World Service
29 March 2025
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.