England bought the land for £425,000 after it was declared the deadest farm in the country, barren after decades of intensive farming. But instead of replanting crops, they introduced four beavers to a thousand acres, letting nature take over.
In 2021, Dominic Buscall had spent two years restoring wildlife at Wild Ken Hill when a trail camera in the marsh recorded a young beaver moving through water his parents had created in wetland once marked as farmland on old survey maps. The last confirmed beaver born in Norfolk lived before the reign of Elizabeth I. Buscall’s family had farmed these fields for 150 years, and no one in Norfolk had…