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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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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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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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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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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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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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Water Saving Week: New Water for Tomorrow project to increase resilience of water stressed areas of England and France

  • Rebecca Duncan
This week we’ve launched Water for Tomorrow, a new €4m cross-border project that will help to improve how local areas mitigate and adapt to the threats of increased future water scarcity and drought in England and France.

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Protecting peat

  • Emily Cooper
The Source to Tap team was enthused to see the UK government making a serious commitment to peatland restoration as part of its amendment to the Environment Bill. As the world slowly wakes up to the importance of preserving and restoring peatland, the island of Ireland will be firmly in the spotlight.

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Mental Health Awareness Week: People and nature can heal each other

  • Rebecca Duncan
It’s no surprise that, at The Rivers Trust, we are big believers in the power of nature to reduce stress or anxiety and improve mental wellbeing. Getting outside and being in green and blue spaces has been a lifeline for many of us, particularly over the past year or so. 

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Mammals of the River

  • Emily Cooper

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