About Cornwall Beaver Project
This exciting project based at Chris and Janet Jones's Woodland Valley Farm will bring beavers back to Cornwall for the first time in 400 years because they create great benefits for wildlife and people.
Cornwall Beaver Project Description
After being hunted to extinction 400 years ago, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Woodland Valley Farm are bringing beavers back to Cornwall. This ground-breaking project intends to show that beavers can help create new wildlife habitat, make our water cleaner and crucially reduce flooding.
Beavers will be reintroduced to a fenced area upstream from Ladock village near Truro that has suffered severe flooding. Their impacts will be studied by our partner Universities of Exeter, Southampton and Plymouth. The results will help us find out if this native species could once again become part of the Cornish landscape to help us combat flooding – naturally.