Restoring Rivers, Improving Stillwaters: The Fishery Improvement Programme
How your club can benefit from the Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP)
How your club can benefit from the Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP)
This guide contains helpful information about flooding risks, how flood can affect the value of one's home or property, and offer some practical tips on flood preparation and safety. Have a look at the guidance:
Download the Swimways of the world poster!
The first global fish migration poster featuring migratory fish from all over the world and their swimming routes.
Dam Removal Europe have highlighted a number of barrier removal projects recently carried out or planned internationally. Check out some of the projects below -
Beavers could help clean up polluted rivers and stem the loss of valuable soils from farms, new research shows.
Read the full article on the Devon Wildlife Trust website here.
Restoration Specialist - Water Environment Fund
£32,991 per annum
1x post (CE29566): Full-time, Permanent
Flexible location
Help restore Scotland's rivers
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is responsible for protecting and improving Scotland's unique and beautiful environment in ways that, as far as possible, creates social and economic benefit.
The Curious Floral Links Creating Healthy Fluvial Environments
Hosted by MappingGM, these maps provide an overview where interventions would be most likely enhance the ecosystem services and in turn, increase the natural capital value.
Opportunity maps are included for:
The river Misbourne should be a pristine, gin-clear chalk stream teeming with invertebrates, fish and birds, but today it is little more than a dirt track. Allen Beechey, who runs the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, gestures to the muddy path that used to be the river and explains the “chronic problem” affecting the area’s chalk streams. “Abstraction in this area has gone up exponentially since the end of World War Two… abstraction pressure is building massively and very quickly and the situation is getting progressively worse,” he says.
It's time to shout about what we do
CaBA and the Rivers Trust are looking to draw together some case studies of the amazing work you all do, particularly with businesses, to use in their discussions with others about the advice we can provide through the Water Stewardship service.
The 'Water Wheel' below splits this into specific topics, for which we'd like two case studies each.