{"id":519508,"date":"2026-04-08T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:29:08","slug":"beaver-shot-in-face-in-perthshire-now-raising-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519508\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver shot in face in Perthshire now raising a family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his recovery, Fig&#8217;s teeth grew back due to the roots not being damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was released at Argaty Red Kites Centre in collaboration with the Beaver Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish SPCA said: &#8220;Since his release, Fig has found a mate and is raising young &#8211; showing he&#8217;s healthy, settled and able to express natural behaviours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re so thrilled to see Fig thriving back in the wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beavers have been a protected species in Scotland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-tayside-central-48106147\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">since May 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams and lodges without a licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beavers were once a native species and over the years there have been a number of licensed reintroduction schemes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been incidents of illegal releases of beavers in Perthshire in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his recovery, Fig&#8217;s teeth grew back due to the roots not being damaged. He was released at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-519508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}