When beavers were last regularly spotted in Wales it was closer to the reign of Owain Glyndwr than King Charles III, William Shakespeare would have been considered popular culture and news of the Pilgrim fathers’ voyage to the New World was still decades away.
So one couple’s discovery that a wild beaver was chewing through trees in their garden in Pembrokeshire was quite the shock.
The husband and wife, who want to remain anonymous to protect the beaver’s location, installed a hidden camera after seeing trees go missing and “machete-like” marks around their land earlier this year.
Their camera showed the wild beaver creeping alone in the darkness, swimming in their pond and building itself a lodge under their deck. It is the first sighting
