Czech Government Officials Spent 5 years Planning, Beavers Built Their Dam for Free in 48 hours

Park in the Past 'baffled' at arrival of resident beaver

Beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK in the 16th century

Artificial beaver dams are installed in a forest in Lenzburg AG. The goal is to moisten the forest floor.

Beavers Engineer Long-Delayed Czech Wetlands Project

A colony of eight beavers in the Czech Republic have flooded and built dams on a former army training site that is now a protected area, saving taxpayers $1.2 million, reported AFP. Officials had wanted to construct a dam to protect endangered crayfish in the Klabava River from acidic water and sediment spilling into the waterway from two nearby ponds. “Beavers always know best. The places where they build dams are always chosen just right – bet…

Seven years of negotiations have delayed the construction of a dam on the Klabava River southwest of Prague. Now the plans can be scrapped, because beavers in the Czech river have already arrived.

Beavers Complete Czech Government’s Dam Project After Seven Years of Delays

A beaver in a River. Credit: hehaden – CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr. Beavers have saved the Czech government and its citizens $1.2 million by flooding what used to be an army training site, where a dam was planned, by building one of their own. Local officials had intended to build a dam to protect the Klabava River and its ecosystem, which includes the endangered crayfish, from acid water spilling over from surrounding ponds. This proposed project w…

Beavers Built a $1.2M Dam for Free — And Saved a Czech River

A Czech project that was stalled for years is now completed — by beavers.