BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
03/02/2008
Belarus to remove beaver-built dam on border river - official
MINSK. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Belarusian authorities will demolish a dam beavers have built across a river that separates Belarus from Lithuania, and "the beavers will be resettled," a senior officer at the Belarusian Landscape Reserve said.
"A dam across the Kotra river that beavers have built will have to be removed. Belarusian border guards have questions in connection with the fact that beavers have built a dam on a river that forms the water part of the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. Of course it will be dismantled, and the beavers will be resettled," Stanislav Berbol told Interfax.
"Most likely it's Lithuanian beavers that have built this dam," Berbol said. "It is possible that Belarusian beavers have taken part in building this dam, but I think their participation in that construction was insignificant," he said.
"For more than 30 years there has existed a nature reserve on the Lithuanian side of the Kotra river, and a lot more beavers have come to live there in these years than from the Belarusian side," Berbol said. "It is only for the last few years that beavers have been living on Belarusian territory in the area of the Kotra river."
The Kotra is about 35 kilometers long and about 6 meters wide, Berbol said.
Source:
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11958375
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