Unlikely heroes in the Moldava River landscape: Family of Beairs has taken on the construction of dams planned seven years ago, and did it in the ideal location: “The Beairs beat us.”
A colony of beaver, in the area of BRDY’s protected landscape, put paws to the work and built dams, creating a new natural humid zone.
The work, faced with compliments and humor, is being reported all over the world, not just funny: the efforts of the beaten have spared the checas authorities 30 million checked crowns (about 1.2 million euros).
The feat becomes even more remarkable knowing that the colony was much, but much faster than the bureaucratic local administration: The bearings did in eight days what humans could not do in 7 years.
Administration of BRDY’s protected landscape area sought to obtain licenses for a revitalization project of 30 million crowns, designed to restore the humid zone. But while the employees sailed through the regulatory maze, the bearings took over the work, advanced at the end of January a.
The colony built a series of dams in an instant, exactly where authorities had planned to create a humid zone. You Bearfish chose an ideal location – A ditch of deviation built for years by the military to drain the area.
Bohumil Fišer, director of BRDY’s protected landscape administration, was very admired by the work of the beaver.
“Military Forest Management and the Vltava River Basin were negotiating with each other the creation of the project and the resolution of issues related to land ownership. The Bearfish beat us, saving us 30 million Czech crowns. They built the dams without any project documentation and for free, ”he joked.
“The bearings are able to build a dam on one night, two nights at most. While people have to get building licenses, approve the construction project and get money to do so. But of course an excavator working on his own could build it in about a week, ”said zoologist Jiří Vlček.
The environmentalists praised the bearings for the creation of a prosperous humid zone will support a series of speciesincluding the rare lobster and various amphibians.
Currently resides in the area a family of Europeans, with about eight beaver, and others live nearby.
