The Wildlife Trust hopes to reintroduce beavers to wetlands in Northamptonshire after 400 years.
Work is under way to create a wetland habitat to encourage beavers to return to an area for the first time in 400 years.
The Wildlife Trust is working with Anglian Water to release a family of beavers into a new enclosure at Delta Pit, costing £180,000. Mr Johnson said bringing in the beavers would be a "good natural way of managing the site for us" because of the "very wet" area.Ben Casey, the Nene Valley projects officer for the Wildlife Trust in the county, said: "In England we have to keep contained and make sure that they are only affecting the lands that have been agreed by Natural England and the Beaver Trust - and make sure they're not causing trouble downstream for farmers.
He admitted beavers were "a bit wily" and were likely to "test the fence... but that's why we're putting in so much effort to make sure they won't do that", he added.Mr Casey said the terms of the licence from Natural England meant the trust would need to keep the beavers in one area and monitor them over the next five years.
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