Beavers, mountain hares and solar roofs: the environmental news of these days

These days, nature shows that restoration and protection go hand in hand with ingenuity. From animals that keep the landscape wet themselves to people who carefully rescue animals, and from old coal land making way for solar panels to an entire rainforest being locked down against new mining. Those who place the reports of recent days side by side see a clear pattern: protection works, and the solution is sometimes surprisingly simple. At the Holnicote estate in Somerset, one spot remained green during the dry summer, while the rest of the landscape withered [1]. The reason: beavers. Reintroduced six years...