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Swimmers in the water at Bristol Harbour as part of a floating protest

River Revival: a harbour fit to swim in?

  • Rebecca Duncan
#SwimBristolHarbour is a new campaign to make Bristol Harbour a designated bathing water, and it’s being spearheaded by wild swimming campaigner Johnny Palmer.

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Water entering rain barrel from drain

5 Easy Ways to Revive Your River: Water saving in the garden

  • Rebecca Duncan
When taking steps to protect and improve the environment, it’s important to remember that all of nature is connected. That means the way you manage your garden – or any plants you have for that matter – can have an impact on river health, and the environment as a whole. That’s why this week, we’re focusing on water saving in the garden.

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Apples being washed in the kitchen sink

5 Easy Ways to Revive Your River: Water saving at home

  • Rebecca Duncan
It’s not always easy to know what you can do to help the environment, especially to protect an ecosystem as complex and interconnected as rivers. But we’re here to tell you that the River Revival begins at home.

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Himalayan Balsam

5 Easy Ways to Revive Your River: You can’t ignore invasives

  • Emily Cooper
Find out all about invasive species and the threats they pose to freshwater ecosystems.

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A range of plastic-free household products such as soap, cotton wool buds, and toothbrushes

5 easy ways to revive your river: plastic-free power

  • Rebecca Duncan
Over the next five weeks, we’re going to help you out by sharing our Five Easy Ways to Revive Your River as part of our River Revival campaign and Take 5 challenge. These are simple, low or zero cost actions you can take at home, in the garden, or at work, to benefit river environments. It’s easy to feel hopeless in the face of the climate and nature crises, but small changes like this can add up to make a big difference. For our first blog in the series we’ll focus on an issue most people are aware of – plastics.

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Sunrise river Canva stock

Green Recovery Challenge Fund: rivers are winners

  • Rebecca Duncan
The Rivers Trust Movement is celebrating eight successful applications to the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

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Mother and son paddle boarding a long a river

River connections to be documented in new photography series

  • Rebecca Duncan
Throughout July and August, we’re partnering with London-based photographer Will Templeton as he traverses five of England’s iconic rivers, photographing the people who live near them and love them.

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Simon Evans on a bridge over a river

From the frontlines: Fighting River Pollution on the Wye and Usk

  • Rebecca Duncan
In our CEOs’ newsletter this month we hear from Simon Evans, CEO of Wye and Usk Foundation. The Wye was in the spotlight this month with the Rivercide documentary highlighting the cumulative impact of poorly regulated farming.

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Bicycle leaning against a fence in the South Wales countryside

Mark Lloyd pledges to ride 500 miles to revive rivers

  • Rebecca Duncan
Mark Lloyd, CEO of The Rivers Trust, will cycle 500 miles in 5 days in September as part of our River Revival campaign.

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Tractor carrying hay bales in field

The Rivers Trust welcomes 50 new Environment Agency staff to enforce pollution laws

  • Rebecca Duncan
The Rivers Trust welcomes the announcement from the Environment Agency that it is recruiting 50 new staff to undertake regulatory inspections of farms in England to ensure that there is compliance with pollution legislation.

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