article_snippet: The animals - the first wild beavers to breed in England for 800 years - were captured earlier this week and given crucial blood tests.
article_snippet: The animals - the first wild beavers to breed in England for
article_snippet: Natural England, the government agency in charge of wildlife, said The animals - the first wild beavers to breed in England for 800 years - won't be put in a zoo, but will instead be allowed to stay in the wild and be carefully monitored in the first project of a zoo kind .
article_snippet: Ministers wanted The animals - the first wild beavers to breed in England for 800 years - to be rounded up and put in a zoo after Ministers were spotted last year.
article_snippet: Beavers, which are native to England, were common in our countryside until Beavers, which are native to England were wiped out by hunters in the Middle Ages.
article_snippet: It later became clear there were nine of the animals, two pairs of breeding adults and five juveniles, and Beavers, which are native to England had been quietly living and breeding there for at least five years.
article_snippet: It was unclear where Beavers, which are native to England came from –
article_snippet: but Beavers, which are native to England had thrived without any outside interference.
highlights_snippet: Beavers are the first wild beavers to breed in England for 800 years .
  