UK beaver population size over time

Leo Pritchard made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.

The request was refused by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Leo Pritchard
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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 the UK:

The estimated number of beavers in each county in the UK in each month from January 2000 to December 2024, inclusive. Please provide separate estimates within each county 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 aggregate these counts at the regional, devolved country, and UK-wide levels. At each level (county to UK-wide, inclusive), 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

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Dear Leo Pritchard,

Please find attached the response to your request of 12th December for
information on UK beaver population.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

[email address]

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