Strathmore farmer shared video footage with the Perthshire Advertiser showing collapsed river embankments and flooded fields.
A Perthshire farmer claims that he has lost more than £2million after beavers caused flooding which destroyed his crops.
In other footage, wide swathes of gravel can be seen covering farmland which, he said, had been deposited by river water diverted due to beaver activity. Costly work is now underway to repair the damage. “Only eight per cent of the whole of Scotland has prime agricultural land for producing fruit and veg.“Scotland cannot afford to lose that land. It will become unfarmable and uneconomic if this continues.Perthshire Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser has said the Scottish Government has “a moral obligation” to compensate farmers for damage caused by beavers.
NFU Scotland policy director Jonnie Hall, referring to a Tay embankment location, said: “The site visited succumbed a massive blowout of a long-established flood bank due to it being compromised by a beaver lodge – causing physical damage and financial losses that the farm business cannot sustain.”
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