Leave it to beavers. Beavers saved the government of the Czech Republic over $1 million on an ill-fated infrastructure project by doing what they do best — building a dam.

A beaver sits on the banks of the Elbe, a major river of Central Europe that flows from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea. Beavers are famous for their abilities as ecosystem ...

The Czech dam is not the first time the rodents have assisted in building a wetland. Beavers in California have helped to restore a floodplain about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento.

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As of 2017, an estimated 6,000 Castor beavers were said to live in the Czech Republic. That figure is relatively low compared to countries like France (with 14,000 to 16,000 beavers), Germany ...

A beaver colony surprised officials in the Czech Republic by building a dam that would have otherwise cost them over a million dollars. Government officials in the Brdy region had reportedly ...

When a long-planned infrastructure project in the Czech Republic hit a snag, beavers took the reins. Beavers have no regard for human laws, so even if they’d known that the construction of a dam ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Beavers have saved Czech taxpayers a cool $1 million by flooding a protected former army training site where a long-stalled dam was planned, a conservation official said on ...

The aim of the dam project by the Czech Republic was to revitalise an area of Brdy region which was damaged by construction of a military base. A bypass gully was developed as part of the military ...

04/14/2025 April 14, 2025. In the Czech Republic's Brdy nature park, authorities wanted to restore wetlands. But beavers beat them to it.

When a long-planned infrastructure project in the Czech Republic hit a snag, beavers took the reins. Beavers have no regard for human laws, so even if they’d known that the construction of a dam ...