For the staff and volunteers involved in the Ealing Beaver Project – a collaboration between Citizen Zoo, Ealing Wildlife Group, Friends of Horsenden Hill and Ealing Council – there had been a sleepless night before the morning of their release. But in the cold dawn at Horsenden Hill’s Paradise Fields, with last-minute preparation to get the site completed, voices were reduced to a whisper as the crowds arrived for the big reveal, huddled around metal boxes set at the water’s edge.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was leaning in to watch them. With the Mayor’s Rewilding London fund a supporter of
