More evidence that people owning guns, in this case farmers, can't wait to use them against wildlife.
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2986564/scotlands_wild_beaver_shoot_to_kill_policy_is_illegal_and_wrong.html
This article in The Ecologist also illustrates the general ignorance about flooding. Trees don't only help to mitigate flooding by encouraging waters to penetrate further into the ground. When cut down by beavers like those in Tayside the dams they build help to slow the flow of water.
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