Don Catchment Rivers Trust remove their first weir!
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The Don Catchment Rivers Trust has a mission of protecting and restoring rivers in the Don Catchment – this not only includes the Don, but the Dearne and Rother too.
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3D buffer strips: designed to deliver more for the environment
Friday, November 6, 2020
This report considers how we can improve the effectiveness of riparian buffer zones to help tackle agricultural pollution. The project assesses the effectiveness of traditional grass buffer strips and suggests ways that buffers can deliver more for the environment.
Scottish Beaver Forum
Thursday, November 5, 2020
In Scotland, beavers became a European Protected Species in May 2019. Their numbers have expanded across Tayside and beyond in recent years, centuries after they became extinct. Beavers are amazing ecosystem engineers, playing a vital role in creating habitats such as ponds and wetlands where other species thrive, alleviating flooding and improving water quality. But beavers also detrimentally impact on some areas of prime farmland by causing flooding of fields.
Rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinctions
Restoring natural landscapes damaged by human exploitation can be one of the most effective and cheapest ways to combat the climate crisis while also boosting dwindling wildlife populations, a scientific study finds.
Swindale river restoration video
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Watch this short film on river restoration at Swindale.
Satterthwaite Weir Removal videos
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Watch 2 short films of the Satterthwaite Weir Removal, South Cumbria.
Partial removal of Long Preston weir
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Last week, the Ribble Rivers Trust completed a partial removal of the ‘Long Preston weir’, taking out 60% of the weir. The weir had a width of 21 metres across the river and a head of around 0.5m.
The weir is located on the river Ribble within the Long Preston Deeps floodplain, near the historic town of Settle in North Yorkshire. The weir only starts to appear on maps in the 1970s and was originally built to provide aeration to Settle sewage treatment works (adjacent to the site) but is no longer required due to advances in sewage treatment works.
Mapping priorities for restoring natural river and lake function
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Natural England has set up a stakeholder-based process for mapping river/stream and lake restoration priorities. It has just gone live on the FBA priority habitats website.
Revitalising Eden: The Eden Catchment Plan
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Eden Rivers Trust are the hosts of the Eden Catchment Partnership.
The Catchment Partnership was established to bring together flood risk and environmental outcomes. Along with our partners, we will work by the following principles:
Modern farming working with nature – the PARTRIDGE project fits perfectly with the goals of the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
PARTRIDGE is promoting nature-friendly, sustainable arable farming, alongside profitable farming across 10 demonstration sites in the North Sea Region.