A Win for Upstream Thinking
The Westcountry Rivers Trust and Cornwall Wildlife Trust were delighted to win an award this month for recognition of their work delivering the Upstream Thinking Project across Cornish river catchments: The Cornwall Sustainability Award 2015 for Best Contribution to...
River Improvements show great economic and environmental returns
In 2012 the Westcountry Rivers Trust won funding to deliver over £4 million of restoration work over three years on river catchments across the South West and a recent independent economic evaluation has shown that for each £1 invested, between £1.9 and £4.5 has been...
And ‘weir’ off on the Lerryn!!
The river Lerryn rises near East Taphouse and flows through the beautiful Boconnoc estate before flowing into the Fowey estuary near Golant. The weir on the river Lerryn at Couch’s Mill was noted several years ago as a possible barrier to fish as part of our previous...
Restoring floodplain function on the Yealm
It’s not often that the planets align in favour of re-wetting a floodplain but that’s exactly what happened earlier this month along a stretch of the River Yealm in Devon. On a clear, sunny winter morning, the purr of a mini digger could be heard in the...