NatureScot Research Report 1274 - Survey of the Tayside Area Beaver Population 2020-2021.
Abstract
This study provides details of the latest survey on Beaver population carried out from late 2020 to early 2021 in areas that encompassed all the rivers and lochs within the Tay and Earn catchments with confirmed records, plus relevant riverine sections of the adjacent catchments which beavers were known to have recolonised from the Tay and Earn catchments including riverine sections/water bodies in the Fife area, Forth catchment, Loch Lomond area. It describes the methodologies and results to determine the current distribution, territory number and associated population estimate. Evidence of a range of human land-useconflict issues were reported, along with evidence of increasing mitigation measures.