POLLUTING the River Allen sees two farms provide £8,000 to Westcountry Rivers Trust through an Enforcement Undertaking. C.P.Button Ltd in St Tudy, Cornwall, agreed to contribute to the trust after an investigation by the Environment Agency into half a mile of the...
HUNDREDS of litres of harmful pesticides and chemicals have been safely removed from farms across Cornwall and Devon in a pesticide amnesty. As part of our work with the South West Water-funded Upstream Thinking project, and in collaboration with partners the Cornwall...
by Dr Dan Osmond You might expect the disappearance of an endangered species to be marked with public outcry, the fear of irrevocable loss, the richness of our environment diminished. Yet there is a species dangerously close to quietly disappearing in the Westcountry...
The £30.9 million St Austell Bay Resilient Regeneration (StARR) flood defence scheme has picked up an accolade at the Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) South West Civil Engineering Awards 2024. The flood defence scheme, in which Westcountry Rivers Trust delivered...
In this blog from our Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Dan Osmond, he considers the answer to the question, what does the restoration of natural river ecosystems look like? “Over millennia of human development and the resulting changes that have occurred to...
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