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Podcast Episode 33 – Dam Good News for Beavers

Knepp Wildland Podcast
Episode 33 – Dam Good News for Beavers

24 March 2025

In episode 33 of the Knepp Wildland Podcast we meet Knepp’s brilliant new Lead Ecologist, Matt Phelps. We chat about the exciting news, released just a few hours before, of wild release licencing for beavers and how this might affect the Knepp beaver family. 

We discuss the abundance of Hawfinch here over the winter and speculate what opportunities are made available to them by the habitat that’s emerged from the rewilding here at Knepp. 

As spring approaches, we talk about ongoing and upcoming surveys and how this has got Matt eager and ready to leap into the season ahead.

Photos by Matt Phelps

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