Wielkopolskie

23rd July 2010

"If there is evidence of illegal destruction of a dam, we will inform the authorities.”

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Environmentalists are raising the alarm after two dams made by beavers near a Poznan lake were deliberately demolished this week. Ecologists fear the vandalism is a result of the misguided accusations against beavers during the recent floods – where even government ministers appeared on television accusing the creatures of being at fault.

“Heavy machinery is being used in the areas where the beavers live. Last Saturday I saw that a digger had destroyed a beaver dam. This is against the law, because beavers, their dams and their lodges are protected,” an angry Jerzy Juszczynski of the Polish Ecological Club told reporters.

The dam was on the stream running alongside the cycle path bet ...

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