{"id":641492,"date":"2025-12-19T03:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:41:21","slug":"beaver-selfie-caught-on-underwater-camera-hidden-in-cairngorms-national-park-loch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641492\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver selfie caught on underwater camera hidden in Cairngorms National Park loch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A beaver \u2018selfie\u2019 has been caught on an underwater camera hidden in a loch in the Cairngorms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the recent release of a beaver family at the Cairngorms National Park, staff set up an underwater camera in a bid to capture the elusive animals in their new habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the camera has captured beavers passing by, with one swimming directly towards it and then knocking it over.<\/p>\n<p>The footage comes as staff at the nature reserve continue their work reintroducing beavers into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>There are now a total of 57 beavers in the upper Spey catchment area and one at Garmouth, with 18 kits in the National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the kits marked the first birth of wild beavers in Scotland in 400 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/be53a0541a6d36f6ecb879fa2c584b08-1766060997.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"   alt=\"Beavers have been released in the Cairngorms\"\/>CairngormsBeavers have been released in the Cairngorms Cairngorms<\/p>\n<p>Currently there are six catchments where beavers have either been officially granted permission to remain or have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Populations are already established in Tayside, on the Forth, in Knapdale, Loch Lomond and the Cairngorms National Park. Two releases have also recently been approved in the Beauly catchment.<\/p>\n<p>Four groups are set to be released early next year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9f4b4fa579bb3981a25c05a8515921c9-1766061009.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"   alt=\"Beavers have been released in the Cairngorms\"\/>CairngormsBeavers have been released in the Cairngorms CairngormsSTV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beaver \u2018selfie\u2019 has been caught on an underwater camera hidden in a loch in the Cairngorms. Following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-641492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115744164305743641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}