A community in Fairfax County, Virginia, created a petition for Wally after its homeowners association said it would remove ...

It’s an effort to prevent beavers from building dams on drainage ditches, which results in flooding.---EARLIER STORY: MOBILE, ...

In Virginia, landowners are prohibited from trapping and moving a beaver. They are allowed to kill a beaver without a permit if it caused damage.

A bonded pair of Eurasian beavers were released into at the Old River Bed nature reserve in the town last month. They will be monitored by volunteers and camera traps during the five-year project.

Beaver dams function as traps which delay the distribution of pollutants, improving the quality of downstream water, new research led by the University of Stirling has shown.