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A council in Derbyshire is pursuing plans to reintroduce beavers in a bid to boost biodiversity.

Erewash Borough Council’s draft biodiversity strategy could see the Eurasian beaver find a new home in the Erewash Valley.

The move follows work by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to breed a beaver population at Willington Wetlands nature reserve in 2021, which brought the species back to the county for the first time in 800 years.