THE SUCCESSFUL reintroduction of Eurasian beavers to Scotland has been voted Wildlife Success Story of the Year in the 2017 BBC Countryfile magazine awards.
The species was the winner of a public vote and the award has been welcomed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, partners in the five-year Scottish Beaver Trial.
In November last year, the Scottish Government announced that the species would be formally recognised as a native species after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago.