The Rivers Trust

Can agriculture and the environment ever exist in harmony? South East Rivers Trust have made fantastic progress towards achieving sustainable water use in their project "Holistic Water for Horticulture". The River Medway, part of the South East Rivers Trust catchment, supports a thriving polytunnel horticulture industry. This results in the…

A lot of charities are concerned with Saving the Earth, but some take it a bit more literally. Despite underpinning almost every terrestrial ecosystem on the planet, we take our soil for granted. Soil is currently being lost ten times faster than it's being created—and there are no signs of…

We were delighted to have seen Ribble Rivers Trust featured the BBC's The One Show this week, talking about water quality testing and solutions to some of the most common pollution problems with our rivers. Shown on Monday 4th March 2019, the programme detailed how Ribble Rivers Trust had found…

On the 25th of May, Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, paid a visit to The Wye and Usk Foundation in response to the Saving the Earth report we launched last month in partnership with the Angling Trust and WWF. Local farmer, Chris Norman from…

The Angling Trust, WWF and The Rivers Trust have launched a widely-praised report Saving the Earth in the House of Commons, calling for fundamental changes in the way land is managed to protect rivers, lakes and estuaries from pollution and to reduce costs to society from flooding, water shortages, dredging…