Beaver Trust
Restoring our rivers and wildlife with beavers
The climate and extinction emergencies threaten communities everywhere. Beavers can help us create habitats that store water and carbon, reduce flooding and pollution and give space to nature. Join Beaver Trust’s urgent mission to restore British rivers and together breathe life back into our land.
It ran from 12:00 PM, 30 November 2021 to 12:00 PM, 7 December 2021
Registered Charity in England and Wales (1185451)
Match funded Campaign target
£60,000
Amount raised
£60,309
Donations
334
Location
United Kingdom
Campaign overview
Aims
Where's the money going?
Impact & reporting
Situation
Cycles of storms, repeat flooding and drought are the new norm. Industrialised farming has degraded our land. Our rivers are polluted. Our treasured wildlife is dying. The security of our water, food, livelihoods and homes is at risk. We cannot resolve these catastrophic problems alone. Instead, we must work together across whole landscapes and reconnect with the wild life that sustains us. We must empower communities to choose natural solutions to our human-made problems and we must act now.
Solution
We enable community-led river restoration. We provide support and funding to help people live alongside beavers and incentivise farmers to give space for rivers to regenerate naturally. With minimal cost and simple management, beavers and river buffers will clean, slow and store water and provide habitats and food for wildlife. Our national programmes and partnerships inform and inspire people to build local climate resilience and recover wildlife, creating nature recovery networks along rivers.
The beaver is such an extraordinary animal. It’s the one critical creature that can make a massive difference to biodiversity in the UK. An ecosystem engineer that can transform landscapes and improve life for all of us.
— Simon Reeve: author, TV presenter, journalist