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Scotland Outdoors

Tom Bowser, author of Waters of Life, Fighting for Scotland's Beavers

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Stewart meets Tom Bowser, author of Waters of Life, Fighting for Scotland's Beavers at his farm in Perthshire where in November 2021 a family of beavers were relocated

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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

1:04.0

That's the tale of a beaver splashing in the water, a sound that Tom Bowser will probably never tire of hearing. Back in 2021, he became the first private landowner in Scotland to legally relocate beavers.

1:12.6

Rather than the mammals being culled when they started causing serious agricultural damage,

1:18.6

he argued that they should be moved to areas where they could do good, such as at his farm, Argettee, near Doon.

1:28.2

Now he eventually got the go-ahead, but it was after a long and difficult battle, and it's

1:33.7

the subject of his new book called Waters of Life, fighting for Scotland's beavers.

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