When wooden fence posts began to disappear, it was first thought that they were facing theft. In addition, stacks of wood have disappeared from construction sites throughout North America.
It did not take long for police in the Canadian state of Saskatchewan to identify the thief.
It was local beavers who had stolen the poles to build the dam. It writes The Guardian.
Beaver in Frognerparken
Beaver vandalism
The problematic rodents were also blamed for a network breach in British Columbia, which led to an entire city not having access to the Internet.
The beavers allegedly chewed on a cable that left the entire city without a network.
In order to pour salt on the wound, the animals had even run off with the telecommunications company’s marking tape in order to block off their dam, according to BBC.
Last month, the people of the city of Greenville-sur-la-Rouge demanded that the 800 beavers in the city be exterminated. The reason was that 200 dams on nearby waterways submerged more than 30 square kilometers of the city. The problem costs hundreds of dollars each year to fix.
Cities across Canada spend millions of dollars annually repairing the damage done by beavers.
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Increasing frustration
The beaver is often seen as a symbol of Canada.
Still has the latest events, and an episode in February where one beaver took the trip into a subway station in Toronto, led to a friction between humans and the growing population of beavers.
The beavers, which were previously threatened with extinction, have in recent years grown in the population in both North America and Europe. In Canada, there are now millions of beavers in the country.
“Beavers have an ability to have an enormous influence on everything around them,” Glynnis Hood, professor of environmental science at the University of Alberta, told The Guardian. She has long studied beavers and their effect on water systems.
Every year, beavers dig out thousands of cubic meters of soil to muddy their areas, build dams and dig canals.
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Important for the ecosystem
Although beavers are often blamed for their destructive tendencies, research shows that beavers are important to the ecosystem.
Protection dams help to restore valuable wetlands and groundwater, and they also filter out sediments and nitrogen from water and create refuge for fish and frogs.
The researcher also believes that one can not just blame the beavers.
