Another way

Scottish Natural Heritage is concerned beavers living in the wild in the Tay catchment may be of the North American species rather than the Euroasian, and say trapping them would be the only way to find out.

This is not the case. Hairs may be caught in barbed wire carefully placed over their regular routes and these could be genetically analysed.

LOUISE RAMSAY

Bamff

Alyth, Perthshire