Community farm gets ‘dirty’ with WRT

Community farm gets ‘dirty’ with WRT

PEOPLE have been getting their hands dirty with us at a community-owned farm near St Just as part of a food-related employment project. We joined Bosavern Community Farm on Tuesday 30 March to share soil health tips with students taking part in the farm’s Training and...
Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award – apply now

Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award – apply now

Salmon and Trout Conservation is pleased to open applications for the 2021 Anne Voss-Bark Memorial Award, in conjunction with the Arundell Arms and Westcountry Rivers Trust. Who is the Anne Voss-Bark Award open to? The award is open to fisheries or aquatic students...
Fish Find it ‘Loveny’ now near St Neot

Fish Find it ‘Loveny’ now near St Neot

FISH can now swim more freely in the River Loveny near St Neot as we remove a manmade barrier. Our River Operations team took out the small screen, which was trapping debris and reducing natural river movement, in October last year. They received special consent and...
The canary in the cage is an eel

The canary in the cage is an eel

EELS may not be the first species most people think of as an indicator of environmental danger, but they are and we need to heed them. A hundred years ago the idea of using a canary in a cage to indicate the presence of carbon monoxide in coal mines as an early...
Roadford Mitigation Milestone 2021

Roadford Mitigation Milestone 2021

A milestone has been reached this year in the Roadford mitigation programme as 275 individual river enhancements have been made. These include gravel cleaning, tree works, debris dams and fisheries surveys and represent a great achievement in the delivery of on the...