£7.1m win to bolster citizen science
Our national body The Rivers Trust has won a share of £36m for cutting-edge water sector innovation. Part of a collaborative proposal called CaSTCo (Catchment Systems Thinking Cooperative), they won £7.1m from Ofwat’s first Water Breakthrough Challenge. This aim is to...
Responsibility for our rivers – it’s in all our hands
This week, ITV Westcountry News shared a story about sewage issues in the River Sheppey and its catchment. The ITV article considered a recent change that could allow some temporary easing of the sewage discharge rules by the Environment Agency following a shortage of...
Treescapes for Riverscapes
Rivers and watercourses in Devon and Cornwall are part of plan to create thousands of hectares of new woodland in England to improve water quality and biodiversity. Forestry Minister Lord Goldsmith announced today (Saturday 25 September) the start of a new tree...
Buckfast Abbey opens ‘un-holey’ fish pass on the River Dart
A new, state-of-the art fish pass has been installed at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, to help turn the tide on diminishing River Dart salmon numbers. Westcountry Rivers Trust fisheries team supported the work ahead of the autumn salmon migration to aid the fishes' passage to...
The State of Our Rivers Report
Our national body the Rivers Trust has today published its State of Our Rivers Report. This provides people in England with details to help them understand the health of their river like never before, on both a national and local scale. The report gives one clear...
North Devon Biosphere joins our call for volunteers to contribute to river Citizen Science.
The North Devon Biosphere’s Pledge for Nature project is teaming up with Westcountry Rivers Trust’s (WRT) Citizen Science Investigations (Westcountry CSI) to develop a network of river Citizen Scientists across the North Devon Biosphere. The area’s rivers and streams...