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Officials in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic were at an impasse.

Despite securing more than one million dollars’ worth of funding for a new dam to address water issues, the project had stalled after seven years of planning because the necessary building permits for such a structure couldn’t be acquired.

But then, everyone woke up one morning in January to find that the job had been completed—by eight beavers. For free.

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago
[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago
[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

No one can beave better than y'all

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

07 Comrade beaver will restore communism

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Archived link to avoid the wall. I love beavers, for the longest time I thought it was sort of an exaggeration that they 'build dams', like maybe they put some sticks in a stream, but they really actually do some wild engineering. The page also links to a fun history about beavers being airdropped into the wilderness like Solid Snake.

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

cool pic of a beaver

[-] btbt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Beavers are super underrated animals if you think about it

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

You mean nature acts a holistic whole and it's actually the imbalances introduced by recent, ubiquitous unthinking human exploitation that has had vast, all-reaching negative consequences?? capitaldcolon

[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

As a vegan, I am appalled at the shameless exploitation of these incredibly intelligent animal engineers! The Czech populace must abandon this area immediately and allow nature to reclaim what is rightfully theirs!

/s cuz I’m sure I’ll need it. Plus, I ain’t a vegan

[-] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

if it's not brown people building their stuff, it's brown animals

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

So Timberborn timeline

[-] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

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