The Brdy Protected Landscape Area (PLA) Administration of the Czech Republic had secured hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of funding to address a
bypass
gully
in the Klabava River, which was draining water out of valuable wetland areas.
The revitalisation plan had
become bogged down
in administrative
re
d tape
as officials tried to obtain building permits from local authorities in charge of the land.
Just as the project
appeared dead in the water
, a family of about eight European beavers swooped in to save it last month.
"
Nature took its course
," Bohumil Fišer, the head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, where the revitalization project was planned, said in the statement.
The beavers began working before the excavators could even break ground and
had created the ideal environmental conditions "practically overnight".
The
rodents
construct river barriers with trees and branches which they have cut apart with their front teeth, as well with mud, stones and grass. It was not immediately clear specifically when the dams were built and how long it took to build them.
Fišer
said the estimated savings to the Czech purse reached 30 million Czech koruna. "They built a wetland with pools and canals. The area is roughly twice larger than planned."
河狸建造的大坝对河流生态至关重要，资料图片。图源：捷克自然与景观保护局
更值得一提的是，河狸们堤坝的选址与专家为保护区规划的地点一致！
捷克自然与景观保护局的一位官员表示：“比我们在纸上设计得还好。
”
Jaroslav Obermajer, branch head of the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency, said of the beaver's
opportune
timing: "Beavers always know best. The places where they build dams are always chosen just right – better than when we design it on paper."
