by Josie Purcell | Jul 22, 2019
Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is embarking on a new project to find natural solutions to some of the issues facing the River Culm and its catchment, and we are a part of it.This new initiative called Connecting the Culm is part of Co-Adapt,...
by Josie Purcell | Jul 8, 2019
More than 190 people attended the latest St Austell Bay Resilient Regeneration Project (StARR) public event at St Blazey Football Club on Saturday 29 June, to find out about on-going plans to reduce the risk of flooding in Par and St Blazey.Our river table...
by Josie Purcell | Jul 4, 2019
Sam Tasker, our 2018/19 student placement studying BSc Marine Biology at Plymouth University, talks to the Western Morning News about how local action can help positive global changes.In today’s world, biodiversity loss and climate change are never far from our...
by Josie Purcell | Jul 3, 2019
South West Water (SWW) has launched its water efficiency campaign, #GetIntoWater – play your part, be water smart.Come rain or shine, saving water makes sense. And, along with protecting the environment, for customers of SWW it can help them save money off their...
by Josie Purcell | Jun 12, 2019
In our latest Western Morning News article, our head of fisheries and river management Bruce Stockley talks about fishing in relation to the environment.It’s an obvious fact that country sports need the natural environment to function, but does the environment...
by Josie Purcell | May 18, 2019
Dan Osmond has joined us as an electrofishing intern. He tells us more about why he wanted to be involved. “I first heard about Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) from Sam Baycock who was on the electrofishing internship in 2017. I started my Zoology program at the...
