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 ...

Eurasian beavers can be found in Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and parts of Scandinavia, although the Eurasion beaver was nearly hunted to extinction at one point.

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 ...

The environment ministry will use the beaver and cormorant pants as promotional materials for its Czech Nature campaign The Czech Republic’s environment ministry has come under fire for ordering ...

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 ...