The state issued a permit Thursday to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue for Nibi to remain at the rehabilitation facility and serve as an educational animal.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued a permit to the Newhouse Wildlife Rescue for Nibi, a 2-year-old beaver, allowing her to stay at the wildlife rehabilitation center and serve as an educational animal.

This is a story about wildlife, about bureaucracy, about politics, about the internet. But, ultimately, it is a story about a beaver. It started two years ago when a baby beaver, just a few days old and weighing one pound,

Gov. Maura Healey and First Lady Joanna Lydgate visit Nibi the beaver at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue. (Office of Gov. Maura Healey)CHELMSFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — Gov. Maura Healey visited Nibi the beaver at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue after announcing that the beaver could stay at the rescue center she has known since she was a baby.

The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild as winter approaches was resolved when the Massac

Newhouse Wildlife Rescue said Nibi - raised in captivity - was not ready to live in the wild.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey paid a visit to Nibi the beaver Friday, who will now stay at a wildlife rescue thanks to the governor's intervention. WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan reports.

For some time, there was a question of whether a two-year-old beaver would be allowed stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or released into the wild. That question has been resolved.