Wales beaver population size over time
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 Wales:
The estimated number of beavers in each county in Wales 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 also aggregate these counts across all of Wales for each month. At both levels (county and Wales-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
Dear Leo,
Thank you for your recent request for information.
This request has been allocated Access to Information Request Number CAS-271057-G2D8
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Dear Leo,
Please find attached NRW's response to your recent request for Information.
Regards
Nerys Griffith
Swyddog Mynediad at Wybodaeth - FOI/EIR / Access to Information Officer FOI/EIR
Cyswllt Cyfoeth / Customer Hub
Cwsmeriaid, Cyfathrebu a Masnach / Customer, Communications and Commercial Directorate
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