Beavers back in London after 400-year absence
Here in the US midwest beavers are shot and their dams dynamited wherever they are found.<p>The majority of the US used to be endless chains of mosquito-infested beaver ponds, the entire length of every stream and river. Nearly uninhabitable by people.<p>The extinction of the beaver is what made the US agriculturally useful. There's not a single landowner I know, who wants a random pond flooding their field, road or house.<p>For better or worse, the age of the beaver is definitely over. At least in the US.