Monitoring salmon stocks in the River Teign
OUR fisheries team members Sam Baycock and George Stone have been joined this year on the River Teign by Mike Rego for The Moorlander to share how our electrofishing surveys as part of the River Teign Restoration Project help monitor salmon stocks. By Mike Rego August...
Green Recovery Project seeks to increase storage and resilience in catchment
Our farm adviser Raf Pompa shares his thoughts on how projects such as Green Recovery can help increase storage and resilience in the catchment. Over the last two months, Europe has seen an unprecedented series of heatwaves that have surpassed historic records,...
River ecology & water resources during dry weather
UPDATE 15 August: South West Water is introducing a Temporary Use Ban for hosepipes from 23 August. Find out more and keep up to date at: southwestwater.co.uk/advice-and-services/save-water/hosepipeban/ THE HEALTH of our rivers becomes even more paramount during...
New funding from DEFRA for more trees
DEFRA has confirmed £44m+ funding for local communities and organisations to plant more trees and create more woodlands across the country. This is part of the work of the Government's England Trees Action Plan, supported by circa £675m from the Nature for Climate...
My experience as a Westcountry CSI volunteer for the PRK Project.
Volunteers like Nick, 30, from Plymouth, make such a positive difference to our PRK and CSI project. Find out from him why he loves being involved. I started volunteering in September 2021. I had just started an Environmental Science Degree at the University of...
Will UK act to save salmon?
Following on from the news about salmon numbers, our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick shared a short thread on our Twitter account (reproduced below) about why we should care and asks what can be done. Salmon populations are in decline across the majority of the UK and they...