Planet Zoo 2 Wetland Engineers: Which Animals and Where

Which Wetland Engineer each reserve needs

The Eurasian Beaver covers the most: 6 of the 12 Ecosystems, all the Taiga and Temperate ones on the list. Plan its release group early if you play Scottish Highlands, Sweden and Poland; the Planet Zoo 2 release groups finder shows the group types each of these animals can go in.

Every Ecosystem that needs Wetland Engineers

An Ecosystem first has to be Established, with its terrain, plants and water in place and the invasive flora cleared; then it flourishes once released animals fill all the roles it lists. To see which roles each of your Ecosystems still misses, tick your releases in the Planet Zoo 2 Wildlife Reserve tracker. These 12 list Wetland Engineers, with the other roles they need:

Underwater Grazers: the fish these Ecosystems often need too

Six of these Ecosystems also need Underwater Grazers, and three fish have that role: the Blunthead Cichlid (Great Rift Valley and Tanzania), the Common Rudd (Scottish Highlands, Sweden and Poland) and the Giant Gourami (Sumatra). In each region the pair looks like this:

• Grassland: Common Hippopotamus with the Blunthead Cichlid for Riverine, Swamp and Wetland.
• Tropical: Asian Small-Clawed Otter with the Giant Gourami for Forest Swamp.
• Taiga: Eurasian Beaver with the Common Rudd for Lake (Loch) and Lake (Taiga).

All the other roles, from Low Browsers to Soil Rooters, are on our Planet Zoo 2 Ecosystem Roles page, with a finder that picks a team for any Ecosystem.

The three Wetland Engineers

How to release them

Breed or buy the animals in your zoo, put them in Animal Storage and create a release group of a type they list. In the reserve, build a Research Outpost, paint the Ecosystem, meet its terrain and plant needs, then release the group into it. The full checklist is in our Planet Zoo 2 Wildlife Reserves guide.