The Bevis Trust

Important News:

On the 28th February 2025 the UK Government announced that beaver releases into the wild are to be allowed in England for the first time in centuries.

The announcement recognised the crucial role beavers play in boosting biodiversity, creating and restoring wetland habitats, and reducing downstream flooding:

“Their positive effect on water ecosystems can bring benefits for a variety of other organisms, supporting delivery of the government’s statutory species abundance and extinction targets. River restoration and creation of wetlands by beavers can also potentially contribute towards delivery of the government’s statutory target to restore or create more than 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitat outside of protected sites by 2042.”

Click here to see the full announcement.
Click here for our beaver project page.

Welcome:

The Bevis Trust is a not-for profit-company based in south west Wales. It has evolved as the altruistic arm of International Wildlife Consultants which has worked internationally on conservation for 25 years.

  • We manage wildlife on our 270 acre farm in Carmarthenshire, alongide our other farms in Northumberland and Swindon.
  • We are demonstrating how wildlife habitats can be restored and managed hand in hand with agricultural production. We recognise that both are needed in a world where humans and wildlife thrives.
  • We encourage and enable learning through doing.
  • We provide support with other wildlife restoration projects both in UK and around the world.

Beaver Watching in Wales

The Bevis Trust is home to three beaver families. Each family lives in a large enclosure, but behave as they would in the wild. We hope that one day we will be able to watch beavers in the wild, but in the meantime we are offering the chance for people to come and watch beavers at our farm within their natural habitat!

This is the only location in southern Britain were you can reliably watch beavers in natural surroundings.

Find out more about Beaver Watching and book your viewing.