A few hundred feet from a McDonalds’ and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, is a lush and thriving urban wetland, built by very unusual residents.
An patch of West London plagued by flooding turned to beavers, extinct in the UK for 400 years.
The rodents built dams and canals that transformed the landscape into a sponge, eliminating flooding in the local area for the first time in a decade.
The project shows how rewilding can address climate-fueled extreme weather, though experts warn beavers need to be reintroduced carefully.
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