Riverfly is coming to Cornwall!
As part of the process of setting up a Riverfly Hub for Cornwall, Ben Fitch visited us to train WRT staff members to become Riverfly monitors. Some members of staff where further trained to become trainers, enabling the creation of a Cornwall based Riverfly Training...
Why rivers matter to WRT
Last week at the Westcountry Rivers Trust we were celebrating UN World Water Day and a number of our team shared their thoughts on why rivers matter so much to them, both in and out of work. It is clear that rivers are so important for so many different reasons. They...
UN World Water Day
Every year the United Nations recognise today, the 22nd March, as World Water Day. This year the UN focus is on the theme of ‘Water and Jobs,’ the importance of which is laid wide open by the fact that almost half the global working population work in water related...
Starting life at the Westcountry Rivers Trust
We all have a good understanding of the importance of our rivers in our landscapes and why we should work to maintain and restore them. However what exactly this involves is much less well known. In early November I headed to the UK’s most equatorial county to begin a...