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- Two wild beavers have been spotted in Norfolk, the area’s first since the 16th century.
- Pensthorpe Nature Reserve manager Richard Spowage says staff believed only one beaver.
- Spowage suspects the two beavers were illegally released.
- Their presence is beneficial, as they clear debris from the river.
- Spowage advocates adding beavers to the River Wensum to restore a species absent for 500 years, amid frustration over UK beaver-release licensing.
