The release is part of efforts to reintroduce the species after their extinction 400 years ago.
Beavers have been reintroduced to west London for the first time in about 400 years in a bid to improve biodiversity and tackle climate change.They were relocated from a wild beaver population in Scotland by a coalition of wildlife groups.The project is being paid for as part of the mayor's Rewild London Fund.
He said there had been plans to spend money on flood prevention measures in Greenford but the beavers were offered as a "cost-effective, nature based" solution. " will turn this into a sponge where the land will hold more water behind their dams, in their ponds in these complex wetlands, and it will release slowly."The area where the beavers have been released will be closed to the public for one month to allow the animals to settle in.
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