Beavers Return to Portugal After 500-Year Absence

Once hunted to extinction, 17 Eurasian beavers have been reintroduced to Portugal’s Minho River—and they’re already engineering ecosystems:

🌊 Building dams that reduce flooding
🐟 Creating fish nurseries in new ponds
🌿 Boosting biodiversity by 300%

Conservationists equipped the rodents with GPS ear tags to study their impact. “They’re better landscape architects than we’ll ever be,” laughs biologist Dr. Ines Silva.