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Dear Leo Pritchard

Access to Information Request - Acknowledgement - EIR2024/12286

Thank you for your request for information, which we received on 12
December 2024. We are dealing with your request under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.

You asked for:

I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, that
you please provide the following information regarding the size of the
beaver population in England over time:

The estimated number of beavers in each county in England, each region in
England, and England as a whole, in each month from January 2000 to
December 2024, inclusive. Please provide separate estimates of the number
of beavers with different origins, for example, those that were released
legally, those that were released illegally, and those that are offspring
from the existing population. In addition to providing different estimated
counts by origin, please also provide a combined count of the estimated
total number of beavers, regardless of their origin.

Please provide these data in a spreadsheet file to make it easier to
analyse them.

Your request is being considered and we will send out our response within
the legal deadline of 20 working days which is 16th January. If, for any
reason we are unable to meet the deadline we will keep you fully informed
of the reasons for this.

Yours sincerely

Farah Afshan
Officer, Access to Information
Legal, Governance and External Affairs
Natural England

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Natural England Customer Enquiry Team
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Dear Leo Pritchard

Please find attached Natural England's response to your request for
information.

Yours sincerely

Farah Afshan
Officer, Access to Information
Legal, Governance and External Affairs
Natural England

[Natural England request email]

Natural England Customer Enquiry Team
Telephone: 0300 060 3900
Email: [email address]

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