- Want to hatch mayflies in your classroom? The Wild Trout Trust launches an excitingly updated creative science kit…
- … while Bristol Avon Rivers Trust has been hard at work engaging communities in the Marden valley around Calne
- Urban rewilding: the Guardian’s view of nature taking over (with bonus link to George Monbiot writing about Trout in Dirty Places and Trout in the Town on the Wandle!)
- Rewilding London: £600k funding for Hyde Park and other urban oases (but does ‘cutting red tape’ mean ‘rivers polluted without consequences’ as well as ‘silenced and demoralised’ Environment Agency staff?)
- Agricultural slurry pollution hits the historic Bishop’s Palace moat in Wells
- Urban river habitat improvements coming soon to Salisbury’s Avon and Nadder
- A river under pressure from climate change? Edinburgh’s Water of Leith in the time of COP26
- Phasing out industrial hydropower… by blowing up a dam in Norway
- Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve never heard of (and yes, they reach the ocean from rivers too!)
- Dirty Places in Italy (again!): urban fishing in the New York Times, and exploring a post-industrial milling valley on the Amalfi coast
- Angling and conservation: Lennard Powell writes from the Afan Valley in Wales
(Image: Wild Trout Trust)