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A holiday gift for rivers: Don’t flush Christmas down the drain

The festive season is a time of joy and celebration but it also poses hidden risks to our important waterways. As we indulge in a Christmas frenzy of cooking and cleaning, The Rivers Trusts urges the public to remember our rivers and streams.

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Forever Chemicals: PFAS Contamination of Freshwater Fish

Our recent analysis of government data shows the alarming persistence of ​‘forever’ chemicals in our rivers, present in fish populations at levels on average more than 300x the safe limits.

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Press Statement: Response to the Office for Environmental Protection report — government not on track to meet nature targets

The Rivers Trust response to the recent Office for Environmental Protection report showing that the government is not on track to meet nature targets. 

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Annual conference on river buffers: call for submissions

Share your experience of river buffer zones at our online annual conference.

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Annual Conference 2024: Embracing River Buffers

The Rivers Trust’s Annual Conference in 2024 will be centred on river buffers, the nature-based solution which restores harmony between land and water.

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Press Statement: Response to the end of water companies self-monitoring sewage

Our response to the announcement that water companies will no longer be monitoring themselves on sewage.

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World Wetlands Day 2024: Completion of Chamber Mead Wetlands

This World Wetlands Day we are looking at South East Rivers Trust’s recently completed Chamber Mead Wetland project.

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Gift in will

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Press Release: Buffer+: An Interreg NWE project focusing much needed attention on peatlands

BUFFER+ is a new Interreg NWE-funded project that will run for four years through individual partner projects across five NW European countries (Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands). Each project aims to restore the capacity of peatlands to buffer water and carbon.

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