Otter accused of killing relocated Loch Lomond beavers

The dead beaver kits were moved from Tayside to RSPB Scotland reserve last month

Beavers playing in a river
The otter suspect was spotted with the dead rodent on remote camera footage
(Image credit: Arterra Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo)

An otter is the prime suspect in the killing of two beaver kits released at Loch Lomond recently in a bid to boost biodiversity.

The beaver kits, along with their parents and three siblings, were moved to the RSPB Scotland reserve last month from an area in Tayside where “beaver activity was having a serious impact”, The Times reported. But just weeks later, the lifeless body of one of the kits was spotted alongside an otter during a review of “remote camera footage”, the charity’s Kirsty Nutt revealed in a blogpost yesterday.

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