Belfort Territory. Beavers are gradually recolonizing our rivers.

2025 is the year of the beaver. 50 years after its reintroduction along the Loire, this large herbivore (between 25 and 35 kg), which feeds on tree leaves and bark, is gradually recolonizing French waterways. It arrived in the Urban Area in 2020 to benefit the environmental respiration of the lockdowns. The animals circulated peacefully, and a beaver couple built their hut on the Allaine. The French Biodiversity Office, which is part of the Beaver Network, in favor of the protection and monitoring of the animal, is monitoring its progress on the rivers of the southern Territory. The beaver is an astonishing mammal with teeth so powerful, orange from the oxidation of the iron they contain, that it displays a hardness rate of 9.2 on the Mohs scale, a diamond is at 10 and human teeth at 5. That's how effective a blow can be...

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