Beavers in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic built several dams in one night, completing a project which officials had been arguing about for weeks.
The Brdy Protected Landscape Area (PLA) Administration had secured hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of funding to address a bypass gully in the Klabava River, which was draining water out of valuable wetland areas.
People wanted to build a £900,000 dam – but beavers did it in one night for free To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.
Beavers feel safest in water and often build dams on streams to raise the water level in places where they move.
Jaroslav Obermajer, branch head of the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency, said of the beaver’s opportune timing: ‘Beavers always know best.
