Tamar Catchment Management Plan Wins Award
Last week saw the award ceremony for the 2013 Waterways Renaissance Awards and the announcement that our Tamar Catchment Plan Project was runner-up in the Strategy and Master-planning Category. There were ~100 entries across 12 categories in the awards this year, and...
Stakeholders Develop Shared Vision for the Tamar
Here at the Trust, we have a long history of working with landowners, communities and local interest groups in the belief that working collaboratively is the only way real environmental improvement and protection across a landscape can be achieved. ‘The health of our...
Upstream Thinking Wins Environment Award
South West Water’s flagship environmental programme, Upstream Thinking, has won a prestigious Utility Industry Achievement Award. The Trust has been working in partnership with South West Water since the projects inception in 2009 to reduce the cost of cleaning water...First ‘River Improvement Auction’ in the UK; win-win for farmers, South West Water and the environment?
This summer, we’ve teamed up with researchers from the University of East Anglia and South West Water to pilot an innovative Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme where farmers bid for funding from South West Water in a ‘river improvement...