{"id":85779,"date":"2025-07-23T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85779\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:21:13","slug":"a-huge-moment-camera-traps-film-baby-beavers-at-cornish-rewilding-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85779\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA huge moment\u201d. Camera traps film baby beavers at Cornish rewilding site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Experts at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornwall Wildlife Trust<\/a>\u00a0were excited to glimpse baby beavers at the Helman Tor rewilding site in Cornwall. They believe these kits are the first on the site born to free-living beavers in the wild, rather than in enclosures.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/beaver-vs-otter-whats-the-difference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beavers<\/a>\u00a0are back where they belong, in the wild,\u201d says Cheryl Marriott, director of nature and people at Cornwall Wildlife Trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beavers-Helman-Tor.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beaver-Helman-Tor.mp4\"\/>See (and hear) the moment the beaver kit is caught on camera at Helman Tor in Cornwall. Credit: Cornwall Wildlife Trust<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t the sight of the kits that first alerted the experts to their presence. Before spotting one of the little ones in the corner of a frame of footage, they had heard strange noises on their camera trap video that sounded eerily like a human baby crying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last time they heard a strange noise on their camera traps, they had accidentally eavesdropped on a beaver\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/beaver-farting-england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">farting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beaver-Helman-Tor-Cornwall.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beaver-Helman-Tor-Cornwall.mp4\"\/>Wild beavers were first discovered at Helman Tor in February\u00a02024. Credit: Cornwall Wildlife Trust<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the arrival of wild babies shows that the rewilding site is working, they say, which is not only good for beaver populations but also the other animals that use these habitats. \u201cThey\u2019re\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/news\/beaver-dams-are-good-for-fish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shaping<\/a>\u00a0the landscape in extraordinary ways,\u201d says Marriott, \u201cbut this is just the beginning. To ensure a healthy, genetically diverse population in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/news\/beavers-return-to-cornwall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornwall<\/a>, we need more beavers across more sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge moment \u2013 a sign that the habitat the beavers have created is healthy and thriving enough to support the next generation,\u201d says Laura Snell, conservation officer at Cornwall Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beavers-Helman-Tor-1.jpg\" preload=\"none\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/07\/Beavers-Helman-Tor.mp4\"\/>Discovering beavers at the rewilding site is a &#8220;huge moment&#8221;, says Laura Snell, conservation officer at Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Credit: Cornwall Wildlife Trust<\/p>\n<p><strong>More wildlife stories from around the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts at\u00a0Cornwall Wildlife Trust\u00a0were excited to glimpse baby beavers at the Helman Tor rewilding site in Cornwall. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-85779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114902288589028284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}