ECONOMICS: Only the Gooferment could try to manage beavers

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/28/conservationists-warn-unauthorised-releases-beavers-english-rivers?ICID=ref_fark

Beaver-bombing’: unauthorised rodent releases on the rise in English rivers
Experts say trend is because of failure by successive governments to approve releases despite promises
Patrick Barkham
Wed 28 Aug 2024 07.05 EDT

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Debbie Tann, the chief executive of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said: “We’ve got beavers living wild quite happily and quietly [across southern England] and yet to get a licence to release a native animal back into its natural habitat we’ve got to do this 100,000-word application to assess its impact on every single aspect of everything.”

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Only the Gooferment could try to manage beavers … … with a 100,000-word application.

Hey, here’s a thought, deregulate anything to do with the beaver.  No forms, no bureaucrats, no beavers constrained and fighting to the death for their space.

Especially no “red tape” and all the people to shuffle paper.

Frankly I’d bet “Mother Nature” can control the beavers and provide for all the predators to feed off them with a meal.

Now if we could just find a predator to control all the politicians and bureaucrats!

Sigh!

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