Leave it to the beavers: How the industrious mammals are helping to stop a London tube station from flooding

Willow, a mother beaver living in west London's Ealing Beaver Project, loads up on surrounding foliage. Beavers eat the living tissue on branches.

A family of beavers that came to London in 2023 is thriving in west London, and preventing flooding by doing what they do best — building dams.

A family of beavers that came to London in 2023 is thriving in west London, and preventing flooding by doing what they do best — building dams. Willow, a mother beaver living in west London's Ealing Beaver Project, loads up on surrounding foliage. Beavers eat the living tissue on branches.

A family of beavers that came to London in 2023 is thriving in west London, and preventing flooding by doing what they do best — building dams.