Beavers just won government protection they didn’t know they needed

• Beavers that were mysteriously reintroduced in England have now won government protection and a legal "right to remain."
• Beavers were once native to England but were hunted to extinction hundreds of years ago.
• The animals popped back up in 2013, and a new study proved they are good for the environment.

Over a dozen families of beavers that made their homes on a river in Devon, England have won government backing to keep doing whatever beaver-ish things they want to do. As the BBC reports, the local government has awarded the beaver families the legal "right to remain," citing a five-year study into the effects of the beavers on the local environment and other wildlife.

Beavers were native to the UK and were once found all over the region before hunting wiped them out. They remained extinct for some time, but have recently been reintroduced. A legal battle over whether the animals do more harm than good resulted in the government taking action.

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