It looks as if the wild beavers on the river Otter could be allowed to stay there after all.
The Government - which had insisted they'd have to be taken into captivity - is now looking at the possibility of testing and then releasing them again.
The news has come in a letter from DEFRA to Friends of the Earth, who've been campaigning for the beavers to remain free.
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