How An Upstate New York Beaver Is Making Environmentalism Cool Again

With the release of Disney•Pixar's Hoppers, environmentalism (and beavers) have hit the mainstream once more, encouraging more people to get out and invest in the natural world around them.

The same thing is happening in our real world too (minus the mind-switching shenanigans) and it all started in New York's Capital Region...

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Bo the Beaver

In May 2024, a massive storm system moved through the Capital Region, flooding the rivers all across the region. During that flooding, a baby beaver (otherwise known as a Kit) was separated from their family.

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It was called into North Country Wild Care, who operates in the area, and Alexis Broz-LaRoche answered. She's a wildlife rehabilitator out of Saratoga Springs who had struggled to find full-time work post-Covid.  She was skeptical at first, not many baby beavers show up in the area, but this one proved to be correct. It was a newborn, with its umbilical cord still attached. He was named "Bo".

Wild For Life

Alexis was committed to taking care of Bo, but soon it became a full-time affair. As such, she began her own rescue organization: "Wild For Life". When they found their second baby beaver a month later, things seemed to be going well. The two could socialize and return to the wild together. Unfortunately, Bo had other plans.

He was found unfit to return to the wild, and became Wild For Life's first permanent resident. Now, only two years after Bo's rescue, Wild For Life works with over 300 animals a year, helping rehabilitate them and return them to their natural habitats in Upstate New York.