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...
Moving forward as one…..
Dr Laurence Couldrick (Westcountry Rivers Trust CEO) gives his thoughts on the implications of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union on the Trust and the environment. This morning we woke up to a new Britain – a divided Britain. The country has not voted with...
Good Farm, Bad Farm crosses the sea
We are pleased to see that our ‘Good Farm, Bad Farm illustration’ is being used in the Ballinderry Rivers Trust new River School. We commissioned artist Mark Stacey to clearly illustrate how simple interventions can reduce the impact of agricultural activity on the...
Partnering for bioregionalism in England: a case study of the Westcountry Rivers Trust
If you are interested in the history of the Westcountry Rivers Trust give this paper published in Ecology & Society a read! Written in conjunction with the University of Exeter and Kingston University, London; this paper looks at WRT's role in bioregionalism. To...
WMN Comment: Helping fish swim Upstream
To celebrate World Fish Migration Day, Adrian Dowding talks to the Western Morning News about our work on the Taw catchment. Over the last six years a huge amount of my time and energy has been spent removing barriers to migrating fish in the River Taw. This has...
The Chemcatchers are in!
This week we have been out and about with South West Water deploying ChemcatchersTM passive samplers across our catchments as part of our Upstream Thinking project. We have developed this exciting new technology in conjunction with SWW, the University of...