Appendix 10 – Formal engagement event responses

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Appendix 10 All com­ments received at the form­al engage­ment events 17 August to 19 Septem­ber 2023

Know quite a bit more now than I did an hour ago. Thank you. Very inter­est­ing and inform­at­ive. Motiv­ated to find out more based on the info here. Thanks! What a vibrant, pas­sion­ate and inspir­ing crowd with all the facts and fig­ures to hand to make beavers more real. Thanks. Con­cerned about Japan­ese Knot­weed spread Inform­at­ive, coher­ent, but I remain scep­tic­al as to the abil­ity of the rel­ev­ant organ­isa­tions you man­age the medi­um to long-term impacts on com­pet­ing spe­cies, includ­ing humans Everything Elaine said! Bril­liant! Learned that CS Lewis was an idi­ot! Beavers don’t eat fish!! Fant­ast­ic pro­ject! All for see­ing beavers along the Spey where they should be. Good luck! Great Pro­ject, hope to see beavers along the Spey in the future. Great to see nat­ive spe­cies rein­tro­duced and key­stone spe­cies sup­por­ted to improve biod­iversity ion Moray. Great to see the engage­ment into Moray and wel­com­ing our learners Inform­at­ive and inter­act­ive dis­play. Thank you for tak­ing the time to do this and I hope it is suc­cess­ful Inter­est­ing to hear the plans and look­ing for­ward to see­ing beavers when they arrive. Very inter­est­ing. Any­thing that gets nature back to how it was gets the green light from me. Can’t believe that anoth­er spe­cies is being intro­duced to this area. Can’t see the bene­fits Pleased to see Insh as part of the plan Very inter­est­ing. Please all work togeth­er! Have my concerns

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I’m a board mem­ber of the very inter­ested to keep in touch — your pro­ject sounds won­der­ful — all good wishes We live right on the Spey on a road where the hab­it­at is graded 5 (BHI JW) we are excited about the pro­spect of maybe hav­ing beavers return We need this key­stone spe­cies to coun­ter­act all the loss of biod­iversity Will com­ment online with my sup­port Will sub­mit online, very sup­port­ive Very inter­est­ing and I was keen to express con­cerns regard­ing beavers and flood­ing in my fields A few con­cerns As a return­ing tour­ist to the area, delighted to hear of the poten­tial for beaver rein­tro­duc­tions. Would be great to ima­gine see­ing one in the wild one day in the future. Glad it is going ahead! Wel­come Beavers!! Great to see the plans for beaver intro­duc­tion on the Spey! On hol­i­day from the south coast of Eng­land. Hope it all hap­pens Like to link with edu­ca­tion deliv­ery Look­ing for­ward to see­ing them! Soon!! Looks good Won­der­ful to hear about beavers com­ing to the area Worth a try! Yes please. I love beavers! All ok. Farmer/​crofter. Very inform­at­ive, great engage­ment Very inter­est­ing Very inter­est­ing Very inform­at­ive, thank you very much Meet­ing on site required, Novem­ber Needs a good long-term man­age­ment plan Look­ing for­ward to see­ing beavers Excit­ing times ahead Look­ing for­ward to the beavers More beaver please! More info please! Keen to get involved in vol­un­tary activ­it­ies loc­ally plus bat group

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Very excited to see beavers back in the Spey val­ley area A book­let for ripari­an pro­pri­et­ors with all the con­tact details — what to do and when with beaver dam­age Con­cerns about aspen stands and poten­tial dams on Dor­back (burn) Per­haps more atten­tion to advert­ising mit­ig­a­tion meas­ures avail­able to landown­ers adversely affected 52 in total