Beavers Research Paper

In the United Kingdom there is an animal fighting to have a comeback into the ecosystem, an animal that has been gone for the past 400 years. This animal is the beaver; the beaver could be just what the United Kingdom needs to help the ecosystem. In England there is a group from the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) that is fighting for this comeback of these beaver. The Devon Wildlife Trust understands that these populations of beavers are a keystone species in this ecosystem. Keystone species have the definition of a species that are largely depended on and if removed from the ecosystem change the environment, these beavers being removed from the United Kingdom have made the ecosystem worse. The DWT has many examples to show the whole country to influence their decision.
The DWT is able to run small experiments on how the beavers could help and these beavers have already showed great promise. Within five years that they were introduced into their small site for the experiment the beavers have made great changes. First, the beavers manipulated a river that was nothing but a trickle to become now a full stream flowing through ponds. By creating this river system it creates more habitat for other animals and increases biodiversity, like herons enter the site because there is a feast of frogs in the ponds. Finally, a great benefit from the beavers is when the water flows through where they located many pollutants are filtered out of the stream. This relates to class because these beavers are increasing the biodiversity in the United Kingdom. The beavers create the great possibility for a resurgence of species richness throughout the whole