Cors Dyfi Beavers - Machynlleth, Wales, UK

Beavers disappeared from Britain about 400 years ago. In 2021 a small family was brought down from Scotland and released here at Cors Dyfi, so these are some of the first beavers to live in this part of Wales for centuries.

They’ve been given a job to do. The reserve used to be a conifer plantation, and the old ditches and tree stumps made it nearly impossible to manage by hand. The beavers live in a seven-acre enclosure with three linked pools, and they’re helping turn it back into a wet peat bog. Before the beavers came, the trust had even looked at bringing in water buffalo.

The beavers are the winter show. In summer, Cors Dyfi is famous for its ospreys. In 2011 they bred in the Dyfi valley for the first time in over 400 years, and they’ve come back to breed every year since.

Did You Know? The first male osprey here was named Monty, after Montgomeryshire, and he’s arguably the most famous osprey in the world.

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