Back at the bottom for region’s water company
Westcountry Rivers Trust statement in response to the Environment Agency's Environmental Performance Assessment of the water industry. FOR almost 30 years, people at our charity have woken up, dressed, eaten breakfast and headed off to work to restore and protect our...
Westcountry riverbank gets banking support
THE RIVER Plym received a helping hand from Lloyds Banking Group as staff volunteered with us as citizen scientists. Employees from the London-based banking team chose to give nature a boost as part of their corporate away day when they joined our environmental...
Hard cheese – Roll on the inevitable future
TODAY saw Dairy Crest (now Saputo) receive a £1.5m fine for polluting the River Inny. For those that live by, play in, monitor and/or protect the River Inny, this has been a long time coming, but is also the start of a movement that will not be going away anytime...
World Fish Migration Day
TODAY is World Fish Migration Day; what better time is there to talk about the work of the Strategic Exe Weirs (SEW) programme. We are working to restore the natural migration patterns for native fish species in the River Exe, including Atlantic salmon, European eel,...
2022 Anne Voss Bark Memorial Award – Apply Now
Salmon & Trout Conservation and the Arundell open applications for the 2022 Anne Voss Bark Memorial Award. The award is run in conjunction with Westcountry Rivers Trust. Laurence Couldrick, Westcountry Rivers Trust CEO, said: “The Westcountry Rivers Trust is...
Our Wadlands Meadow ‘wandering’ post has returned.
You might remember that earlier this year, our River Ops team installed a Fixed-Point Photography post (FPPP) in Wadlands Meadow in Tamerton Foliot as part of the Plymouth River Keepers project. Shortly afterwards, the post was mysteriously removed. Believing that the...