Pesticide Amnesty Helps Protect Natural Water Quality
HUNDREDS of litres of harmful pesticides and chemicals have been safely removed from farms across Cornwall and Devon in a pesticide amnesty. As part of our work with the South West Water-funded Upstream Thinking project, and in collaboration with partners the Cornwall...
The Fading Away of Westcountry salmon
by Dr Dan Osmond You might expect the disappearance of an endangered species to be marked with public outcry, the fear of irrevocable loss, the richness of our environment diminished. Yet there is a species dangerously close to quietly disappearing in the Westcountry...
A Star for StARR
The £30.9 million St Austell Bay Resilient Regeneration (StARR) flood defence scheme has picked up an accolade at the Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) South West Civil Engineering Awards 2024. The flood defence scheme, in which Westcountry Rivers Trust delivered...
The Beaver’s Role in our River Environment
In this blog from our Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Dan Osmond, he considers the answer to the question, what does the restoration of natural river ecosystems look like? “Over millennia of human development and the resulting changes that have occurred to...