thereby benefiting birds and beaver populations as well. Despite the essential role they play in ecosystems, apex predators can sometimes come into contact with human activities, leading to conflicts.

The changes beavers make can help land hold onto water and release it slowly, which eases flooding and stalls drought.

A large beaver spotted in Bubbly Creek on the southwest branch of the Chicago River has sparked a citywide naming effort after a viral Reddit post from the nonprofit Urban Rivers. Conservationists say ...

A niche is the lifestyle of an organism: where it lives and what it eats, but also things such as how it avoids predators or what other species it depends on. The beaver has a specialized niche. It ...

Clearly, attention will turn now from beavers to apex predators in deer infested England and Scotland. The case for bringing back lynx, at the very least, and even wolves eventually, is there to ...