beaver bombing

“Beaver bombing” or “beaver black ops” — as it’s become known in conservation circles — is the practice of illegally releasing the humble beaver into a waterway and leaving it to do what it does best: fell trees, build dams and construct lodges.

The secret movement bringing Europe’s wildlife back from the brink Isobel Cockerell 2023

It is not clear whether the Pensthorpe beaver, whose sex and age is unknown, was illegally released into the reserve by activists using a practice known as beaver bombing.

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years Donna Ferguson 2025