A tree about to fall into the backwater of the river Altmühl in Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany.

Edit: Link to full album, hope you enjoy it as much as imgurians do: https://imgur.com/gallery/z1ddA72

  • bionicjoey
    1·
    7 months ago

    Wait, then why did Europeans have such a raging boner for beaver pelts from the new world during the colonial period? Couldn’t they just… Get them from these local beavers?

      • bionicjoey
        1·
        7 months ago

        Oh wow. Impressive that they’re listed as least concern in that graphic then!

        • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          7 months ago

          Germany has taken some serious “renaturation” steps to fix the grave errors done since the 1940s to 1980s where they straightened rivers and dried up a lot of land. E.g. at all of Altmühl’s weirs they dug a little creek around it to enable fish to migrate or sometimes even bigger projects like this one:

          https://maps.app.goo.gl/yTYY9TDoMbmgHsGo7 The EU however to this day pays subsidies if you drain your land which is just beyond stupid.