Confluence: Annual Review 2016
2016 was a challenging year for the Trust, mirroring the wider trials faced by Britain and the world in general. The move towards more nationalistic narratives, often seemingly at the expense of holistic integrated thinking, has brought division, uncertainty and...
Westcountry Rivers Trust is partnering with the Flood Expo 2017
Westcountry Rivers Trust has joined forces with the Flood Expo 2017 as an official partner ahead of the event’s highly anticipated return on the 27th & 28th of September at ExCeL London. The Flood Expo is simply unique; it’s the world’s largest exhibition and...
Trekenner School Make a Splash!
Last week we were joined by budding river scientists from Trekenner Primary School for a day of rivers, nature and sunshine at Sydenham Estate. Reception and Year 1 pupils from the Squirrels Class pulled on their wellies and spent the day discovering the...
ThinkGIS: Westcountry Rivers Trust helps diverse groups achieve consensus
One of the largest not-for-profit rivers trusts in the UK, the Westcountry Rivers Trust is driving the implementation of critical river conservation schemes by helping large groups of stakeholders to agree priority programmes. It uses ArcGIS Online to clarify the...
Comment: Resilient catchment and communities
Dr Laurence Couldrick, CEO of Westcountry Rivers Trust, discusses catchment resilience There has been a lot of talk about drought in the past few weeks and whilst it has been the driest winter in 20 years our increasingly variable weather patterns are now part of the...
Garramarsh needs you!
After some major flooding, on the river Mole (in North Devon), at the tail end of last year, the levels dropped and revealed swaths of detritus washed down. Macabre Christmas Trees line the bank as shredded black silage wrap hang from the branches. On a gloomy day it...