Pollution pays – A tale from the River Mole
On Wednesday 31 July 2019, Environment Agency Officers were called to a fish kill on the River Mole near South Molton. They recorded more than 9,000 dead fish, including salmon, brown trout, sea trout, bullheads, stone loach and minnows, in the 4.7 kilometre stretch...
If you down to the (secret) creek today…
Our Senior Monitoring Officer Simon Browning talks to the Cornwall AONB about our latest monitoring project. THREE new residents at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary will be under observation by our monitoring team, but they aren’t seals. The Sanctuary has been joined by...
A Royal audience for our North Devon work
This week, we had the opportunity to speak with Prince Charles when he came to North Devon as part of his visit to the South West. The Prince of Wales attended part of a Farming and Natural Capital Seminar, hosted by the North Devon Biosphere Reserve, on Wednesday 21...
Saving Seagrass
The Life Recreation Reducing and Mitigating Erosion and Disturbance Impacts affEcting the Seabed (ReMEDIES) project is led by Natural England and will improve the condition of five Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) between Essex and the Isles of Scilly. This will...
Free waste audits on offer…
We are urging businesses in the Tamar catchment to help prevent single-use plastic (SUP) entering the River Tamar. As part of our work in the €14m Preventing Plastic Pollution (PPP) project, involving key partners in England and France to avert plastic hotspots in the...
Speaking out for our rivers
The Environment Agency has released its annual reporting for 2020 on the environmental performance of the nine water and sewerage companies in England, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA). Our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick took part in an interview...