Our first Water Resilience Summit calls for action
People gathered in Totnes on Thursday 12 Sept to join our call to become more water resilient.We have been restoring and protecting the regions waterways for 25 years and in recognition of this, we hosted our first Water Resilience Summit, in partnership...
Farming for a sustainable future
This month, our head of land management Hazel Kendall talks to the Western Morning News and Western Daily press about our work to support environment friendly farming.“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”. So...
Notice of Works 9-13 Sept
Significant disruption to Shipley Bridge car park for the week 9 - 13 SeptemberWestcountry Rivers Trust, in partnership with South West Water and the Environment Agency will be undertaking gravel augmentation on the River Avon, Devon.In the final year of a five-year...
Pesticide amnesty rids farms of 5 tonnes of chemicals
For the past four years, we have been conducting an amnesty to remove illegal, out-of-date, or unidentifiable pesticides from farms through our Upstream Thinking project.As the scheme ended in August (2019), we are pleased to have helped remove five tonnes of...
Water Quality Funding Opportunities 2019 – 2020 (Lyd & Gara)
Our Channel Payments for Ecosystem Services (CPES) project has now moved from its initial research and development phase to a delivery focus. We are now able to target key activities that we feel are most appropriate to our two pilot areas; Devon rivers Lyd (including...
Connecting to nature needs to start early
Our education lead and senior ecologist Shona McCombie talks about the importance of reconnecting to the natural world, particularly for young people. Human disconnect from nature was perhaps an inevitable consequence given the trajectory of the contemporary modern...