12-03-2007, 09:04 PM
To follow up on our Beaver story, a family of beavers who have been on the run in Perthshire are to be hunted down as they are now considered animal "outlaws"!
The search is due to begin in days, although it may not be that easy as it seems the adult pair have recently moved home - perhaps anticipating a backlash from the law
The beavers themselves haven't done anything wrong but they are considered eveidence as releasing wild animals not native to the country is against the law.
The search is due to begin in days, although it may not be that easy as it seems the adult pair have recently moved home - perhaps anticipating a backlash from the law
The beavers themselves haven't done anything wrong but they are considered eveidence as releasing wild animals not native to the country is against the law.
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Officially regarded as either "lost property" or "evidence", the beavers - it is thought there is one adult pair - have not themselves committed a crime, but as alien species their release into the wild was a criminal act.
Do you think this is any relation to the story about a beaver escaping earlier in the year? I thought that was only one beaver, but it could well have been two.
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