A council in Derbyshire is pursuing plans to reintroduce beavers in a bid to boost biodiversity.
Erewash Borough Council’s draft biodiversity strategy could see the Eurasian beaver find a new home in the Erewash Valley.
The move follows work by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to breed a beaver population at Willington Wetlands nature reserve in 2021, which brought the species back to the county for the first time in 800 years.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to look out for beavers around the borough in the future,” said Becca Everett, the borough council’s deputy leader.