Beavers return to Hampshire for first time in four centuries

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A headshot of a beaver swimming across a green river in Otterton, England, United Kingdom
Beavers were hunted to extinction in the 16th century
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Beavers have returned to Hampshire for the first time in 400 years. A male and a female were released this week into an enclosure at Ewhurst Park, a former shooting estate near Basingstoke, as part of a rewilding project. The beavers, who have been named Chompy and Hazel by local children, were captured in Tay Valley in Scotland, which has its own thriving population. Beavers were once common across Britain, but were hunted to extinction in the 16th century.

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