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 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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Robot beavers with *AI*, though!
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Robot beavers with *AI*, though!
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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
#Environment #Climate #Wildlife #Beavers #London
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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? 🦫 🦫 🦫
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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
#Environment #Climate #Wildlife #Beavers #London
@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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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 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..
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@dbattistella
beavers are nature's flood engineers and they're very good at what they do@neckspike @dbattistella they are however not very good with money
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@dbattistella
beavers are nature's flood engineers and they're very good at what they doExactly. That's what beaving is about.
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