Farmers 'will have to cull feral beavers' on River Tay

[Elton]

Farmers will have no option but to cull beavers on the River Tay themselves after Scottish ministers reversed capture plans, the organisation representing landowners has warned.

 

Article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/...-River-Tay.html

[Phone]

All,

 

OK???

 

I live with beavers and I can't for the life of me figure out what "substantial damage" might look like?

 

Phone

[captain cojones]

Phone......These are English newspapers....The only thing you can believe is the date and the price......

[andy_youngs]

Just out of interest, I've been trawling around for the cheapest beaver pelt I can find. It costs £35 + VAT, and it comes from Latvia.

 

You can also buy them from the USA, but you go up into another price bracket (£100 +).

 

I'm sure there must be a business opportunity in here somewhere ....

[John S]

Just out of interest, I've been trawling around for the cheapest beaver pelt I can find. It costs £35 + VAT, and it comes from Latvia.

 

You can also buy them from the USA, but you go up into another price bracket (£100 +).

 

I'm sure there must be a business opportunity in here somewhere ....

 

I've just googled Beaver and found some really interesting websites

[andy_youngs]

Well I'm not surprised John. If you googled beaver, latvia, USA then I'm sure you'd get some 'interesting' results.

 

I however, was referring to a search on ebay for 'beaver pelt', and I got loads of hits, mainly from the USA, Canada, Latvia and Scandanavia. My post was intended as a reference to the fur trade, not the skin trade.

 

And the reason for bringing it up was that we in the UK are getting our knickers in a twist about whether or not to cull beavers (and for that matter otters, foxes, badgers etc), when it actually makes perfect commercial sense to harvest all of our naturally given resources on a sustainable basis.