Tamar Catchment Management Plan Wins Award
Last week saw the award ceremony for the 2013 Waterways Renaissance Awards and the announcement that our Tamar Catchment Plan Project was runner-up in the Strategy and Master-planning Category. There were ~100 entries across 12 categories in the awards this year, and...
We are always looking for new ways in which to communicate our message and thanks to an environmental photographer based here in the Westcountry, the BBC News website has published an audio slideshow showcasing our work in pictures. Award-winning photographer Paul...
Stakeholders Develop Shared Vision for the Tamar
Here at the Trust, we have a long history of working with landowners, communities and local interest groups in the belief that working collaboratively is the only way real environmental improvement and protection across a landscape can be achieved. ‘The health of our...
Valuing Nature: Right or Wrong?
As 2012 drew to a close, one environmental debate showed no sign of abating: should we or should we not ‘value nature’? Perhaps the answer is more complex than a simple yes or no. The idea that nature is to be valued in order to carve it up and sell it off to...
Upstream Thinking Wins Environment Award
South West Water’s flagship environmental programme, Upstream Thinking, has won a prestigious Utility Industry Achievement Award. The Trust has been working in partnership with South West Water since the projects inception in 2009 to reduce the cost of cleaning water...
First ‘River Improvement Auction’ in the UK; win-win for farmers, South West Water and the environment?
This summer, we've teamed up with researchers from the University of East Anglia and South West Water to pilot an innovative Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme where farmers bid for funding from South West Water in a 'river improvement auction'. The river...