by Alice Broaders | Aug 27, 2025
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...
by Jenny Wytcherley | Jul 30, 2025
The Tamar Catchment Partnership held their summer meeting on the 18th June in Saltash, bringing together a broad mix of stakeholders, with the day taking on a fish theme. WRT host the Tamar Catchment Partnership (Giles and Jenny), along with co-hosting the South Devon...
by Helen Williams | Jul 30, 2025
WRT was pleased to have arranged a well-received citizen workshop attended by 23 people keen to learn more about ecological processes, nature recovery and the important role that farmers and agriculture have in restoring nature and biodiversity. The workshop took...
by Annabel Martin | Jul 30, 2025
What is a ley? And what makes it herbal? And why are WRT interested? Well a ley is the term for a piece of land put down to grass or a mixture of grasses and flowers for a single season or number of years, as opposed to permanent pasture, which is well, permanent....
by Lucia Grimm | Jun 27, 2025
We’re excited to share that the Westcountry Rivers Trust is featured in the Ofwat Innovation Fund’s latest learning report, ‘From source to sea: harnessing nature and communities for whole catchment innovation’, published today. As part of a collaborative partnership...
by Ada Myers | Jun 27, 2025
The monitoring element of the Otter Land Use and Water Resources project has finished after 2.5 years of field-based data collection. The project objective was for to collect environmental data for building a model which calculates the impacts of different land uses...
