WRT team join the Salmon Run
Salmon run – a 43 mile run from Exmouth on Saturday 20 September to highlight the migratory journey of the endangered Atlantic salmon
From Drought to Deluge: The Case for Dual-Purpose Landscape Management
Within hours, Cornwall and Devon transformed from parched to flooded. After a summer where July delivered just 58% of normal rainfall, heavy overnight downpours brought widespread flooding across the counties and a flood warning for Polperro. The irony is that I began...
WRT Teams: Rivers and Fisheries
Photo Credit: Will Templeton. Fisheries officers cataloguing trout during electric fishing survey. The Rivers and Fisheries team at Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) centre their work around the principle of combining a scientific approach with practical techniques to...
Trees for Salmon
There’s an old cliché that, ‘salmon live in trees’ but there is a deep and intertwined relationship between these fish and the vegetation that symbiotically supports both, not just the salmon. For trees, salmon bring rich nutrients from the sea up with their...
A Christmas Message from the CEO
Our 30th anniversary year draws to a close I hope you all are having a peaceful and relaxing Christmas break and are starting to look forward to what 2025 brings. For the Trust, we are coming to the end of our 30th Anniversary celebrations which included the Science...
Why is soil so important?
Head of Land Management, Annabel Martin, explains the connections between healthy soils and healthy rivers this World Soils Day. Many of the problems that our rivers systems face, often at the top of the hill. Rivers are so much more than the flash of water you...