edie piece conveys disappointment expressed by environmental charities, thought leaders and Green Party ‘Missed opportunity’ headline from the Independent Wildlife Trusts concerned about nature recovery and planning reform From the Guardian – Johnson’s planning laws an ‘utter disaster’, say countryside campaigners Following last week’s item on storm overflows, the Rivers Trust responds. PRESS RELEASE 11 […]
Monday was World Water Day, the theme of which was valuing water. The UN Secretary-General’s Message On World Water Day This year’s World Water Day, with the theme “Valuing water”, asks: What does water mean to me? The value of water is profound and complex. There is no aspect of sustainable development that does not […]
The Rivers Trust put out a positive message to celebrate World Rivers Day last week HEADING: OUR RIVERS ARE WONDERFUL – DON’T GIVE UP ON THEM A message from our CEO on World Rivers Day After dispiriting news on the state of UK’s rivers last week, the Rivers Trust CEO Mark Lloyd looks to lift […]
The latest newsletter from CaBA (Catchment Based Approach) outlines a new initiative to drive citizen science forward. The Rivers Trust and its partners have launched the new Catchment Monitoring Cooperative Consultation Hub which we hope will create a radical step-change in the contribution of citizen science and community monitoring. This is the first stage of […]
In our second Rivers Trust review, we are again delighted to report on the fantastic work carried out by the Rivers Trust movement in the previous year. Rivers Trusts delivered an incredible £19.2m of work to improve rivers in 2017, supported by over 11,000 volunteers, despite challenging financial times for charities. Our trusts now have […]
What is Natural Capital and what are Ecosystem Services and why do we need to protect them? Three new animations, funded by the Interreg North Sea Region WaterCoG project, have been created by The Rivers Trust to visually introduce natural capital and ecosystem services in three films. The first introduces the subjects, the second provides context […]
It is reported this week that the Norfolk Rivers Trust is using a pollution solution including buffer strips and silt traps to help curb run-off from a 1,000-pig farm in West Acre, Norfolk. The sediment run-off came from an outdoor pig unit. During heavy rainfall events, suspended sediment came off the field and onto a […]
Soil is currently being destroyed ten times faster than it’s being created. This is not only putting the farming sector at risk and costing England & Wales £1.2 billion a year, but is affecting the health of our rivers. A new report by WWF, The Rivers Trust and The Angling Trusts shows that spending approximately £10 million […]