With millions of views around the world, a spread in National Geographic for Kids, and several televised appearances, Nibi the Beaver has made a splash for audiences across the globe. But now the 2-year-old beaver faces an uncertain future starting Tuesday morning.
Jane Newhouse says she rescued the one-pound newborn beaver on the side of the road in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, back in 2022. For the past two years, the beaver has lived at the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford. She was the only orphaned beaver in New England for the five months after Nibi was rescued, which made it difficult for her to bond with other rodents.
The trouble for Newhouse started when she tried to apply with MassWildlife for Nibi to become an educational beaver. She was informed that not only was Nibi’s request revoked but that the 2-year-old beaver would need to be released back into the wild — a problem for Nibi who hasn’t got along with other Beavers in the past.
“I just heard back last week with the denial of my request and then an email saying that they’d be contacting me to release her soon,” said Newhouse. “[Nibi] has no idea she’s going to be picked up tomorrow and dropped off somewhere she’s never been.”
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When Nibi, a rescued beaver, got her room at a Mass. wildlife rescue to herself, she immediately started building a dam, perhaps to keep her roommate from being able to get back in.
MassWildlife tells NBC10 Boston that Newhouse was informed back in June that Nibi would need to be released saying, “Wild animals like this one belong in the wild, and releasing them back into their natural habitat enables them to lead fulfilling lives and contribute to the ecosystem.”
“It has been very frustrating to not be considered at all, to not feel like anything I have to say about a beaver I’ve known for two years matters at all,” said Newhouse.
Newhouse says she doesn’t want to keep Nibi in captivity but she’s worried releasing her so close to winter might be detrimental for the beaver’s health.
“I don’t like the idea of her being released now. It’s certainly she has less of a chance of surviving now than she would if she was released in April or May of next year,” said Newhouse.
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And while thousands of concerned citizens are making their voices heard with a petition on Change.org, Newhouse is exhausting all her options to make sure Nibi stays safe.
MassWildlife says they plan to pick up Nibi at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and they plan to release the beaver into a remote area with abundant suitable habitat.
“I made a promise to this animal, a promise I don’t plan on going back on and if it means that this is the end of me and my permit gets pulled that’s fine,” said Newhouse.
Boston Bruins president Cam Neely offered his assessment of the team’s contract negotiations with goaltender Jeremy Swayman on Monday.
Hours later, Swayman’s agent, Lewis Gross of SPM Sports, offered a statement in response to the comments from Bruins media day.
“Normally, I do not release statements or discuss negotiations through the media,” Gross shared on X. “However, in this case, I feel the need to defend my client. At today’s press conference, $64 million was referenced. This was the first time that number was discussed in our negotiations. Prior to the press conference, no offer was made reaching that level.”
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Gross continued: “We are extremely disappointed. This was not fair to Jeremy. We will take a few days to discuss where we go from here.”
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Swayman comes off of a season where he held down goaltending duties and the Bruins advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs. The 25-year-old posted a 25-10-8 record with a 2.53 GAA last season.
BOSTON (WHDH) – Boston teachers, educators, and paraprofessionals joined a nationwide protest Monday as they held a city wide walk-in as they push for a better contract with the Boston Public Schools.
Staff gathered at more than a dozen schools before classes started for the day in an effort to educate the community about their union contract on the exact day that federal funding of COVID-19 relief programs ended.
“Now more than ever our students need support,” said Boston Teachers Union President Erik Berg. “We’re asking that that support be codified in a fair contract that meets the needs of our students and our educators.”
Speaking with reporters, Berg said city teachers are overwhelmed.
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In talks with school district counterparts, teachers are asking for more assistance in the classroom.
“We think that students with disabilities and our multilingual learners need and deserve the support of an additional teacher in order to thrive in our general education classrooms,” Berg said.
Adrianne Jordan marched alongside her colleagues Monday morning. She also demanded change.
“ I have to go out and get two or three jobs just to live here to make a decent living and it’s not fair because the work that I do is not just a job to get up and go,” she said. “It’s to support these kids and their families.”
Jordan has been teaching for over 30 years. She said the current state of the Boston Public Schools is driving teachers out.
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“ I’ll wait, I’m Wonder Woman. I’ll wait, I have all the time,” she said. “But do our students have all the time?”
The next round of contract negotiations in Boston is scheduled for Oct. 3.
7NEWS reached out to Boston city officials for comment on negotiations and did not hear back as of around 12 p.m.
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A vehicle crashed into the woods off Route 3 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Sunday night, seriously injuring two men inside, including the driver, who was trapped.
The Plymouth Fire Department says it responded to Route 3 around 8:11 p.m. for a report of a single-vehicle crash with entrapment and found one vehicle that had gone off the southbound lanes of the road, into the woods.
The driver of the vehicle, an adult male, was heavily entrapped, and it took about 20 minutes for firefighters to free him using hydraulic extrication tools, the fire department said. He was flown by Boston MedFlight to a Rhode Island trauma center.
The passenger, another adult male, was also seriously injured in the crash and treated by firefighters. He was then taken by ambulance to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, the fire department said.
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There was no immediate word on their conditions, or what caused the vehicle they were in to leave the roadway.
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