New Natural Flood Management for Mevagissey
FARMERS in the Mevagissey catchment will help Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) bolster flood resilience in the area. The Climate Resilient Mevagissey (CRM) project, funded by Defra’s Natural Flood Management programme, will be led by the trust in partnership with the...
Temperate Rain Forest Receives Helping Hand
A TEMPERATE rain forest within the Luxulyan Valley, near St Austell, has received a helping hand from our river operations team. As part of Defra’s G7 Legacy Project for Nature Recovery (LPNR), we scoped and delivered habitat restoration work along the Bokiddick...
First ‘Water for Woodland’ Trees Planted in the Westcountry
Our Woodlands for Water (W4W) team have good reason to celebrate since completing their first planting site in the Westcountry. The ambitions of the W4W project are to restore and protect ‘lost’ wetland and riparian habitat, as a means of improving river health. In...