Dr. Emily Fairfax on nature’s rockstars the beavers.

Dr Emily Fairfax is an ecohydrologist. She is an expert
in beavers and describes them as rockstars in climate
mitigation.


Beavers are nature’s wetland creators, providing natural solution
to droughts, wildfire risk as well as well as floods while also
providing huge natural stores of carbon.


You will probably be as surprised as we were to find out that
before human’s fully settled in North America the landscape was
unrecognisable from the one we know today. There was a vast
network of waterways with a beaver population of about 400
million, today they are trying to regrow they beaver population
to between 10 and m 40 million.


There are so many amazing nuggets of information and after
listening through you will find out where to find a beaver meadow
and what a fossil beaver dam is.


We are sure you will leave this episode as a fan of beavers!


We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did. You can find
Dr Emily Fairfax at https://emilyfairfaxscience.com .


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