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Restoring rivers to their natural state

Posted by: Rosie Pyper, Posted on: 23 September 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Removing the wooden boards at Harpers Weir

I recently finished an 11 month assignment working for the South East Rivers Trust, an environmental charity dedicated to conserving and restoring rivers. Rivers trusts are national and have been described as having “wet feet” concentrating much of their effort …

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Putting fish on the ‘highway’ to success

Posted by: Jerome Masters, Posted on: 22 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Ward End Weir on the River Don after work had been done

We’ve been working to allow fish to migrate freely up and down two of Yorkshire’s rivers, taking rivers back to how they would have been before the industrial revolution. In the last few months we’ve made significant additions to Yorkshire’s …

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