Officials in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic were at an impasse.
Despite securing more than one million dollars’ worth of funding for a new dam to address water issues, the project had stalled after seven years of planning because the necessary building permits for such a structure couldn’t be acquired.
But then, everyone woke up one morning in January to find that the job had been completed—by eight beavers. For free.
Archived link to avoid the wall. I love beavers, for the longest time I thought it was sort of an exaggeration that they ‘build dams’, like maybe they put some sticks in a stream, but they really actually do some wild engineering. The page also links to a fun history about beavers being airdropped into the wilderness like Solid Snake.