It is sometimes claimed that European Beavers build fewer and smaller dams than Canadian Beavers but this contradicts the much advertised reason for their introduction to Scotland – that they will have major impacts on stream ecology, increase biodiversity etc. Beavers themselves can have no such impacts, it is only by building dams that they can. The position is therefore unclear. 

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