<![CDATA[The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers.]]>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 β€” 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? 🦫 🦫 🦫

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Exactly. That's what beaving is about.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sibrosan/statuses/116629373170510149https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sibrosan/statuses/116629373170510149Sun, 24 May 2026 11:43:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 10:54:22 GMT]]>@neckspike @dbattistella they are however not very good with money

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/kris/statuses/116629180419552141https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/kris/statuses/116629180419552141Sun, 24 May 2026 10:54:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 10:20:41 GMT]]>@dbattistella you never get anywhere with suits by saying all the money saved on X should go to Y. How about instead: for just 70% of the budget planned for floors reduction at this one site we plan beaver based remediation at these 2 other sites currently suffering flooding..

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Funcan/statuses/116629047998889102https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Funcan/statuses/116629047998889102Sun, 24 May 2026 10:20:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 07:08:45 GMT]]>@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!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Dirk79/statuses/116628293261205394https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Dirk79/statuses/116628293261205394Sun, 24 May 2026 07:08:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 07:06:02 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sigmoid.social/users/drgroftehauge/statuses/116628282584465549https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sigmoid.social/users/drgroftehauge/statuses/116628282584465549Sun, 24 May 2026 07:06:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 06:58:11 GMT]]>@ahimsa_pdx @dbattistella i think this credits our government with a *lot* more joined-up thinking than is actually happening

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/116628251673659500https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/116628251673659500Sun, 24 May 2026 06:58:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 02:00:53 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/116612219711864167/statuses/116627082667720158https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/ap/users/116612219711864167/statuses/116627082667720158Sun, 24 May 2026 02:00:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 01:35:51 GMT]]>@dbattistella amazing

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bolha.us/ap/users/116360302761113847/statuses/116626984263578587https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bolha.us/ap/users/116360302761113847/statuses/116626984263578587Sun, 24 May 2026 01:35:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 01:22:42 GMT]]>@dbattistella Wow.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Beachbum/statuses/116626932534427853https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Beachbum/statuses/116626932534427853Sun, 24 May 2026 01:22:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sun, 24 May 2026 01:07:19 GMT]]>@dbattistella
Love a good beaver story - here's more coverage about this from NPR

"As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers"

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As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

About 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction across Britain. Now they're being reintroduced as little climate warriors, as communities harness their dam-building skills to mitigate flooding.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://disabled.social/users/ahimsa_pdx/statuses/116626872016620636https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://disabled.social/users/ahimsa_pdx/statuses/116626872016620636Sun, 24 May 2026 01:07:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 23:55:49 GMT]]>@eestileib πŸ˜‚ @Petesmom

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626590910223179https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626590910223179Sat, 23 May 2026 23:55:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 23:27:09 GMT]]>@dbattistella @Petesmom

Robot beavers with *AI*, though!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116626478168804087https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/eestileib/statuses/116626478168804087Sat, 23 May 2026 23:27:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 23:23:19 GMT]]>@dbattistella

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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/lxskllr/statuses/116626463071256572https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/lxskllr/statuses/116626463071256572Sat, 23 May 2026 23:23:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 22:09:29 GMT]]>@alexlubertozzi ✊🏽 πŸ’ͺ🏽

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626172751498159https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626172751498159Sat, 23 May 2026 22:09:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 22:08:36 GMT]]>@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/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626169287532496https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626169287532496Sat, 23 May 2026 22:08:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 22:07:28 GMT]]>@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/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626164847928560https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626164847928560Sat, 23 May 2026 22:07:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 22:05:06 GMT]]>@Petesmom 😩

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626155511968521https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/users/dbattistella/statuses/116626155511968521Sat, 23 May 2026 22:05:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 21:28:32 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.games/users/DerPumu/statuses/116626011719601445https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.games/users/DerPumu/statuses/116626011719601445Sat, 23 May 2026 21:28:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 20:17:16 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dacig/statuses/116625731547383489https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dacig/statuses/116625731547383489Sat, 23 May 2026 20:17:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 19:52:17 GMT]]>@dbattistella Thanks! Tagging for an early

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/MaQuest/statuses/116625633280653736https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/MaQuest/statuses/116625633280653736Sat, 23 May 2026 19:52:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 19:36:08 GMT]]>@dbattistella That’s awesome. But the beavers clearly need to unionize.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/alexlubertozzi/statuses/116625569794517778https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/alexlubertozzi/statuses/116625569794517778Sat, 23 May 2026 19:36:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flooding at the Greenford London subway station has been reduced by around 90% thanks to... *checks notes* ...a family of beavers. on Sat, 23 May 2026 17:49:29 GMT]]>@dbattistella
beavers are nature's flood engineers and they're very good at what they do

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