The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
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@dbattistella
Dont know about your side of the ocean but in the #US beavers would be non-starters beacuse how do you grease palms or get kickbacks from beavers? -
@dbattistella wasn't there a story about a million euro water management project in the Czech Republic that a bunch of beavers made unnecessary in a few days?
@DerPumu Yes, you're right! Thanks for reminding me 🤩 https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/czech-beaver-family-save-government-1-2-million-dam-project-prague-flooding-climate-change/
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@dbattistella In the Czech Republic, Beavers built in weeks a planned 1.2 million € water infrastructure. It's not only money. No emissions from machinery and materials ( carbon is in fact sunk). Maintenance is done for free.
@dacig yes, I was just reminded of that... here's a piece about it https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/czech-beaver-family-save-government-1-2-million-dam-project-prague-flooding-climate-change/
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@dbattistella That’s awesome. But the beavers clearly need to unionize.
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The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
Paying the beavers isn't a bad idea. What I would propose is half the projected construction cost going towards affiliated natural/low impact climate remediation/research.
Everybody wins. You got your project done half price, and you set yourself up to save money and resources on future projects.
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The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
@dbattistella
Love a good beaver story - here's more coverage about this from NPR"As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers"
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5738979/beavers-britain-climate-change-flooding
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The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
@dbattistella Wow.
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The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
@dbattistella amazing
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The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
@dbattistella This is the real-world equivalent of deleting thousands of lines of over-engineered custom code because a native system framework does the job better for free. Sometimes the ecosystem just knows how to self-regulate if we get out of the way.
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@dbattistella
Love a good beaver story - here's more coverage about this from NPR"As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers"
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5738979/beavers-britain-climate-change-flooding
@ahimsa_pdx @dbattistella i think this credits our government with a *lot* more joined-up thinking than is actually happening
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@mjog @dbattistella According to the video the beavers were revived after 400 years? What foul necromancy is at work here!?
Anyway, wasn't there the same story from Czech Republic a couple of years back? -
The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.
After conservationists reintroduced a group of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals began building dams, and the wetlands they created now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
City officials had been planning major flood infrastructure works, but the beavers effectively created them on their own — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.
I think the money the city would have spent on anti-flooding infrastructure should go to the beavers, don't you? 🦫 🦫 🦫
@dbattistella From an economical point of view, we shouldn't pay the beavers, but rather correctly incorporate the huge benefits we get from natural restaurations.
If we would correctly put a value on Nature we either destroy or support, many of today's successful business models would not be succesful anymore, while many other things would immediately turn out to be immensly profitable. We urgently need to increase pressure to change this!
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