The Environment Agency encourages local sports clubs to become more sustainable
As new year's resolutions see more people getting involved in sporting activities, our PPP partners, the EA, share plastic reduction advice for community sports groups. The guidance comes in the form of a leaflet, which has been launched internationally, focusing on...
Tamar catchment research to aid increase in salmon smolt numbers
Our fisheries scientific officer Sam Baycock shares outcomes from our ongoing Roadford Mitigation Project. Increasing the number of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts leaving the Tamar catchment is the focus of our Roadford Dam mitigation work. Since the...
Duke of Edinburgh Awards students clear plastic and litter from rivers
TWO Duke of Edinburgh Awards students have cleared plastic and litter from rivers in Cornwall. Jarvis L'Arbalestier, 14, of Stoke Climsland joined us to volunteer in litter picks as part of our Preventing Plastic Pollution project in the Tamar catchment. Jacob Long...
Double Donations to Help People Revel in Rivers
We have just one week to raise £12,500 to support our citizen science volunteers and education projects. This year, for the first time, Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT), which has been restoring and protecting freshwater environments in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and...
New ‘Water Roadmap’ for the food and drink sector
50 leading UK food and drink companies officially support the new Water Roadmap to help deliver the UK’s Courtauld Commitment 2030 water target and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Roadmap to improve quality and availability of water in 20 sourcing areas and work...
The Rivers Trust statement on sewage treatment investigation
The Rivers Trust' s Michelle Walker, Deputy Technical Director, provides comment on the Government announcement of investigation into sewage treatment works. We welcome this long-overdue step up in enforcement of existing law by the regulators, provided it is rigorous...