We are excited our new creative avenue to nurture river kinship is now live.
We will initially be running participatory eco-conscious photography and eco-acoustic workshops in St Agnes, Cornwall, and Barnstaple (tbc in 2025), Devon, to inspire people to take action for river health through creative means.
We couldn’t do this without your generous support in this year’s Big Give Green Match Fund which saw us secure over £5,000 for the Westcountry Artivists to Enhance Rivers (WAtER) pilot project.
Activities such as wild swimming, fishing or playing in rivers – where legally accessible and mindful of nature – create wonderful experiences and help to nurture a love for our freshwater environments.
In addition to my role with the trust, I’m also an eco-conscious photographic artist. This has given me first-hand experience of how nature-based art activities provide a wonderful way to encourage water stewardship. They can connect people to a river’s amazing habitat, which can help its health and biodiversity while supporting human wellbeing too.
Through the WAtER project, we want to spark river kinship and visually share river stories through eco-conscious photographic activities. By doing so, we aim to bolster public understanding of river eco-systems and the work to be done to keep these healthy for all who depend on them.
Thank You – your generosity helped us smash our fundraising target.
Our Eco-conscious Photography Gallery so far...
We collaborate with a wide variety of people to protect Westcountry river habitats.
From working with farmers to improve soil health which in turn improves water quality, to planting the right trees in the right place to minimise run-off, to engaging volunteer citizen scientists to monitor the waterways near their homes – it is all done to keep bringing our rivers to life.
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