Urban Beavers and Ecological Resilience

In the US, one notorious rodent is feared for it's ability to both build and destroy. As American Beaver populations recover from overhunting and near extinction, humans are looking for ways to prevent flooding where the beavers decide to call home.
Those who welcome the presence of these "ecosystem engineers" are rewarded, however, with the many ecological benefits that come with a beaver's constant knack to grind down it's teeth.
This idea is embraced by Beavers Northwest of Seattle, Washington, an organization that aims to help residents of Seattle live with beavers.
Due to their ability to hold onto water, beaver dams are also considered aid to climate resiliency. Some are researching this as a means to make "analog beaver dams", created to mimic a beaver dam in hopes of similar benefits.
We're beyond excited to have collaborated with Good Things Sustained, who provided super cool & cute animations for this video. Please follow & support them! / goodsustained
Beavers Northwest: www.beaversnw.org/

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  • @felipericketts
    @feliperickettsАй бұрын

    Co-exiting with nature to the benefit of all! Sounds like a winner to me. Maybe we can even learn to lie with each other. Thanks 🙂

  • @AntonWongVideo
    @AntonWongVideo2 жыл бұрын

    The animations were so good! The little water ripple reflection was perfect! Great work covering this story!

  • @GayestWinston
    @GayestWinston2 жыл бұрын

    Love this! The fact that they cut some trees down to be able to eat the sprouts is so interesting to me. Beavers are so cool :)

  • @matthewsaunders4820
    @matthewsaunders48202 жыл бұрын

    This is a fantastic video! Such great quality it should be on Seattle Channel.

  • @erikrosch6047
    @erikrosch60472 жыл бұрын

    I don´t understand how your videos only have this much views, they are of amazing quality and I wish you one day just blow up and go viral. You can see how much effort you put in and I hope it someday reflects in views and subscribers. Keep it up guys!

  • @MerchantsOfMisery

    @MerchantsOfMisery

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. This channel is excellent and it makes me sad to see no new updates.

  • @victoriaguidici5574
    @victoriaguidici5574 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this.

  • @anniehill9909
    @anniehill9909 Жыл бұрын

    Just crazy how much time, money and effort has to be put in to replicating what these amazing animals do for free. I really hope some beaver come and take over the job for you!

  • @Soapss
    @Soapss2 жыл бұрын

    Sweet!

  • @NamooNara
    @NamooNara Жыл бұрын

    Beavers are ethical, instinctive geniuses that happen to be adorable and severely underrated

  • @nickminesinger7310
    @nickminesinger73102 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome

  • @dianefreeman7194
    @dianefreeman7194 Жыл бұрын

    Where I am (Midwest), cottonwood trees are considered the pest!

  • @jacobconnolly2673
    @jacobconnolly26739 ай бұрын

    I will definitely keep my eyes out for urban beaver.

  • @marcusm8009
    @marcusm8009 Жыл бұрын

    Im gonna be a beaver.