Help for 750 South West farms will benefit rivers, livestock and crops
Farmers across the South West can now access free and confidential advice to help improve water quality and boost the health of their livestock and crops. Over the next five years, the Westcountry Rivers Trust and partners are aiming to give 750 farmers practical tips...
Fish do live in trees?!
Scott West, one of WRT's Fisheries Scientist's recently attended a Wild Trout Trust workshop. Here is what he had to say..... I attended a workshop run by the Wild Trout Trust (WTT) on one of their practical, in-river, workshops alongside the Environment Agency &...
WRT Boards arrive in the St Austell and Par Catchments
Next time you are out by the St Austell and Par rivers, look out for WRT's interpretation boards! An important element of our South Cornwall River Improvement Project (SCRIP) is to engage and provide information to those people who live in and visit the catchment on a...
Looking 25 years ahead…
Dr Laurence Couldrick, CEO of the Westcountry Rivers Trust, gives his thoughts on DEFRA's 25 year Environment Plan. I have just returned from a meeting in Exeter that involved the environmental great and good from Devon and Cornwall. The topic in discussion? The...
Inspiring the future generation
On Sunday the 26th June, Scott West, a fisheries scientist from WRT joined forced with Dean Asplin from the Angling Trust to deliver a partnership day focused on introducing young people to the sport of fishing. The day was part of “Taunton wildlife week” organised...
2015 Annual Review hot off the press!
2015 turned out to be another year of change but this time slightly more predictable. We came to the end of some of our bigger projects, such as the Catchment Restoration Funds projects, and transitioned from the previous Upstream Thinking Phase 1 project into a...