Beavers: managing beaver activities in England
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How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Benefits and impacts of beaver activities
- Managing beaver activities - a 5-step approach
- Step 1: Contact local beaver management groups and other experts for advice
- Natural England
- Step 2: Make space for beavers
- Step 3: Manage beavers with actions that do not require a licence
- Install fencing
- Temporarily use electric fences for protection of crops or emergency
- Use scarers
- Protect trees
- Use textured tree paint
- Remove trees felled by beavers
- Remove a beaver dam
- Remove destroyed dam material that causes a flood risk
- Remove unusable burrows
- Recognising an unusable burrow
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Beavers: managing beaver activities in England’ (updated 28 February 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026