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World Rivers Day:  What are the biggest causes of river pollution and what’s being done about them? 

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View of flowing river

By Helen Wakeham, Director of Water World Rivers Day, celebrated every year on the fourth Sunday of September, is a global event that highlights the importance of rivers and the urgent need to protect them.    Public concern around pollution in …

Wendling Beck Environment Project – building financial and environmental resilience for farmers.

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By Andy Slaney, Green Finance Specialist, Environment Agency The Wendling Beck Environment Project is a habitat creation, nature restoration and regenerative farming project, spanning almost 2,000 acres near Dereham in Norfolk, UK. The project is leading the way in transforming …

Resetting our rivers – how taking them back to ‘stage zero’ could help nurture nature

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Grange Farm Stage Zero

Matt Parr works in Lincolnshire’s Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology team and has been with the Environment Agency for 10 years. Here, he explains how he’s working to restore the glory of local rivers by resetting them to their natural state, …

Weevils to the rescue! How a beetle could help win the fight against invasive plants

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Pennywort

  Trevor Renals is the senior technical advisor on invasive species for the Environment Agency. He started his career working on Japanese knotweed management in his native Cornwall, which led to an interest in biological control solutions, using co-evolved natural …