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Plans to bring beavers back to Scotland have taken another step forward.
Ministers' wildlife advisers say the way is now clear to approve proposals for a colony in a woodland reserve at Knapdale, in Argyll.
Scottish National Heritage experts say there is nothing now to stop a licence being granted to allow the mammals to be reintroduced.
Up to 20 beavers would be involved in a seven-year trial, if the plans are agreed.
They would be brought from Norway for release after being kept in quarantine over the winter.
The animals have been extinct in Scotland for about 400 years.