Tamar Grow Local: Sustainable local food production in the Tamar Valley
Over the past 3 years, we've been working in partnership with stakeholders in the Tamar catchment to develop and deliver a strategic catchment management plan under DEFRA's Catchment Based Approach (CaBA). Hazel Kendall, the Tamar Catchment Partnership Facilitator at...
Chemcatchers™: A novel approach to water quality monitoring
Throughout this year, we've been developing and expanding our water quality monitoring capabilities here at the Trust, which has included the purchase and use of an innovative new 'passive sampling' system. Chemcatcher™ passive samplers, were developed by the...
A Fishy Tail from the Classroom
Back in May, pupils at Culmstock Primary School in Devon welcomed some unusually fishy companions to their classroom and did their bit to help conserve one of the South West’s most iconic species of fish, the Atlantic salmon. The pupils took delivery of more than 100...
Reconnecting the Polgooth Stream
The Polgooth stream is the largest tributary of the St Austell River, known locally as the White River, and rises near Trewoon, a small village to the west of St Austell. Like many of the streams and rivers that rise in the St Austell and mid-Cornwall area, it has...
Brook Stream: Morphology for Mitigation
This culvert on Brook Stream, a small tributary of the River Yealm, was identified in partnership with the Environment Agency as a low cost, quick-win, site for improvement work under the South Hams River Improvement Project (SHRImP). Due to the morphology of the...
Ministerial Visit
On Monday this week, WRT was very pleased to have the opportunity to host a meeting with Dan Rogerson MP (Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and representatives from DEFRA, the Environment Agency, the Rivers Trust and South West Water. Comment from our...