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The Dams Are Being Built

After 400 years, beavers have returned to East Sussex — restoring rivers, reviving wildlife, and rebuilding natural ecosystems. Made possible by Ecotalk customers, whose everyday mobile use funds real nature recovery across Britain.

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Beavers are Back

At Ecotalk, restoring nature isn’t an ambition—it’s already underway.

Our latest milestone brings beavers back to ancient woodland, in partnership with the Green Britain Foundation and leading conservation partners, with Chris Packham, our Chief Ecologist, at the heart of it.

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Swimming beaver at Bowyers Wood

Why

Beaver

Reintroduction Matters

The return of beavers to Britain brings wide-reaching environmental benefits. They don't just live in nature - they rebuild it. By naturally slowing the flow of water, beavers help reduce flood risk; their dams and wetlands filter and clean rivers; and the habitats they create support a rich increase in biodiversity. In turn, these restored ecosystems strengthen our resilience to a changing climate. Every month, Ecotalk customers turn their phone bills into real-world nature recovery — and if you’re not with us yet, yours could too.

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Species

Eurasian Beaver

Castor.fiber

Once extinct in Britain, beavers are nature's ecosystem engineers — reshaping waterways and wetlands in ways that support a rich diversity of wildlife. Now, after years of planning and preparation, they've been successfully reintroduced to Bowyers Wood. Working alongside Derek Gow — widely known as the UK's 'Beaver Guru' — a 27-acre area has been carefully assessed, enclosed, and restored to support this landmark project.

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Our Beaver Homes

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This former set of grazed fields has been transformed into a thriving mosaic of wet meadows, ponds, bogs, and marshland. Scrapes have been created, dykes restored, and old drains carefully blocked, with hedgerow planting and gentle wet woodland management now complete or well underway.

At the heart of it all is the site's clear, fast-running stream — now home to a resident beaver population that is actively shaping the water and surrounding habitat every day. Their presence is driving much of the habitat creation across the wider site, accelerating the return of a richer, more dynamic wetland ecosystem. Otters have also been spotted, with ongoing camera trap monitoring revealing just how quickly this living system is evolving.

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Within a 250-acre woodland landscape in East Sussex dating back to before the Bronze Age, beavers have been given a new home — the first time this site has heard the sound of a dam in centuries. Led on the ground by Chris Packham, the project demonstrates how working with nature can deliver real solutions to today's environmental challenges.

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