For those people working with farmers this could provide a valuable source of funding for all sorts of projects in relation to farm scale improvements that support catchment work. Defra highlight on-farm reservoirs and using water more efficiently. Defra: ‘Funding for rural businesses that will generate thousands of jobs and provide new support to expand […]
Eager beavers experts at recreating wildlife-rich wetlands, study reveals Four re-introduced beavers in Scotland engineered a network of dams, canals and ponds that left the landscape ‘unrecognisable’ from the original Research on Scottish beavers reveal how they re-engineer the river landscape; natural flood management Damian Carrington Guardian The extraordinary ability of beavers to engineer degraded […]
Schemes announced to receive £15m of natural flood management funding Environment minister Thérèse Coffey has announced details of projects which have been allocated funding for natural flood defences. As part of a drive to roll out innovative techniques to reduce flood risk. 34 community led projects have been named as winners of a £1m government […]
New WWF & US AID report on using nature to manage rising flood risk Leading environmental organisation WWF has published a new report setting out an integrated framework for flood management, drawing on policy, green infrastructure and conventional engineering to help communities adapt and better manage growing flood risk. Introducing the report “Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management: […]
Natural Flood Management (NFM) has as Duncan Huggett outlines has become very fashionable, but it is neither new or, as a top level scientific review highlighted recently, a ‘silver bullet’. There are still many questions to answer in relation to its appropriate application, not least in terms of location of schemes in the catchment. With […]
Natural measures to prevent floods valuable but not ‘a silver bullet’, say researchers Oxford Martin restatement finds claims that natural flood management will alleviate the worst floods are not supported by scientific evidence. Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their […]
Chris Uttley: We have published a series of six case studies that illustrate the natural flood management work we are undertaking in the catchment of the Stroud River Frome in Gloucestershire. We have now worked with a wide range of farmers, private land owners, woodland owners and partners to install over 280 different structures on […]
Natural Flood Management James Champkin, Campaigns Officer, Angling Trust While the winter we are currently experiencing has been relatively dry, none of us will soon forget the catastrophic weather that hit Britain just twelve months ago. A relentless series of storms battered the UK throughout December 2015, causing unprecedented rainfall in many areas and resulting […]