To whom it may concern,

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 Scotland:

The estimated number of beavers in each council area in Scotland in each month from January 2000 to December 2024, inclusive. Within each council area, 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. Please also aggregate these counts across all of Scotland for each month. At both levels (council area and Scotland-wide), in addition to providing different estimated counts by origin, please also provide a combined count of the estimated number of beavers in total regardless of their origin.

Please provide these data in a spreadsheet file to make it easier to analyse them. Thank you very much for your time and help.

Yours sincerely,
Leo Pritchard