Beavers Return to England After 400 years
Two beavers, a male and a female, are brought to a wetlands area in Shropshire for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England 400 years earlier. The hope is that the beavers will breed and will cut down on the willow tree scrub that has been drying up the wetlands. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
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