Plans to build a beaver observatory at a nature reserve are to go ahead following confirmation the species will have protected status in Wales.
Powys council gave the go ahead for the structure at Cors Dyfi Nature Reserve at Derwenlas, near Machynlleth, following an application by Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust (MWT).
Beavers became extinct in Wales just after the Middle Ages because they were over-hunted for their fur, meat and scent glands, before disappearing from the wild across Britain by the end of the 16th Century.
But the species has re-emerged in recent decades in fenced enclosures on reserves or have been found living in rivers through unlicensed releases and escapes.