Wild Beavers in Catchment Based Approach Partnerships 2025 (England)

The presence of wild beaver populations, using five categories (confirmed established population, establishing population, population of unknown status, unconfirmed or low numbers, no known population), in the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) Partnerships across England. Wild beaver data presented within this layer is based on Natural England"s knowledge in July 2025. This layer has been developed using the CaBA partnerships layer: [https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c8cfe7ebf1944a2d9d3ecee693486495]. The layer contains CaBA partnership name, partnership website, CaBA partnership ID, catchment name, and the status of beavers within each CaBA partnership. Further details about CaBA partnerships available here: [https://data.catchmentbasedapproach.org/]. Why is it important that NE publishes this data? This data needs to be avilable to beaver stakeholder groups, as well as the general public more broadly to ensure transparency when externally publishing the Beaver Impact Assessment Toolkit which includes this layer. The Beaver Impact Assessment Toolkit is directly supporting beaver wild releases across England following the change in legislation and Defra policy announcement on 28th February 2025 enabling the wild release of beavers in England with a licence from Natural England. Lineage The catchments displayed within this dataset use The Rvier Trust's CaBA Catchments Partnership layer, available from: [https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c8cfe7ebf1944a2d9d3ecee693486495]. CaBA catchment partnerships have been derived from the Environment Agency dataset WFD River Waterbody Catchments Cycle 2 spatial data, available from: [https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/298258ee-c4a0-4505-a3b5-0e6585ecfdb2/wfd-river-waterbody-catchments-cycle-2]. The status of wild beavers within each catchment partnership has been collated through expert knowledge of the Natural Egland Beaver Team. This dataset has been created from published and quality assured datasets and has been internally quality assured, it conforms to data and gemini metadata standards. Attributes ──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Column Heading│Full Name │Format│Description ──────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CaBA_partn │CaBA Partnership │Text │Name of the CaBA partnership ──────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CaBA_Websi │CaBA Website │Text │Website link for the CaBA partnership ──────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CaBA_ID │CaBA ID │Long │Unique identification number for each CaBA partnership ──────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CaBA_Catch │CaBA Catchment │Text │River catchments within the CaBA partnership ──────────────┼──────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Beavers │Wild Beaver Status│Text │Wild beaver status for each CaBA partnership across England ──────────────┴──────────────────┴──────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Full metadata can be viewed on [environment.data.gov.uk].