Restoring floodplain function on the Yealm
It's not often that the planets align in favour of re-wetting a floodplain but that's exactly what happened earlier this month along a stretch of the River Yealm in Devon. On a clear, sunny winter morning, the purr of a mini digger could be heard in the woods, playing...
Ecosystem Visualisation for Catchment Planning
The Westcountry Rivers Trust, in collaboration with DEFRA and the Rivers Trust, has developed a method for undertaking stakeholder-led spatial visualisation of ecosystem services provisioning areas across a catchment landscape. During this participatory process,...
Two National Parks Now Accessible to Migratory Fish in the River Taw!
Over the past few years, Westcountry Rivers Trust has been working in partnership with the River Taw Fisheries Association and the Environment Agency to deliver a series of works to improve fish passage for all migratory species of fish within the River Taw catchment....
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...