The first analysis of new monitoring data reveals that British freshwaters are heavily contaminated with neonicotinoids. Half of the sites monitored in England exceed chronic
NRW encourages farmers, landowners and contractors to follow best practice guidance on spreading manure and dirty water
An update on The Delivering Innovative Markets for the Environment (DIME) Project, led by the Wye and Usk Foundation (WUF) in partnership with Nature Finance and the Rivers Trust.
Our staff have once again been out along the Wye and Usk with the aim to eradicate Japanese Knotweed as part of the Giving Up The Weed Project. It is highly invasive and threatens the health of our rivers by smothering the native flora on the rivers’ banks.
The Wye and Usk Foundation joins the RSPB, National Trust, and The Rivers Trust in expressing its dismay and anger that the English government appears to be abandoning its promises for nature and climate.
Our staff have once again been out along the Wye and Usk continuing the control treatment of Giant Hogweed as part of the Giving Up The Weed project.
Defendant enters a guilty plea to 7 charges on Wednesday 18 May
A rethink on how we manage river catchments is required if the kind of flooding witnessed across the UK last month is not to get even worse.
Herefordshire agricultural group starts taking the practical measures needed to improve the Wye’s water quality
Is there any hope for these fish in the Wye and Usk?
Natural Resources Wales fail to bring a prosecution for last year’s devastating pollution event
Thousands of trees are to be planted in the English Wye catchment
Solving specific issues affecting rivers like the Wye will be key to their recovery, but so too will be the condition of their tributary systems.
Colette Mooney and Herefordshire Council have produced some great new videos for upper KS2 and year 7 students
A study of the river’s salmon smolt migration started last week
Defeat of an attempt in the Senedd to annul new Welsh Government water protection measures might be a sign of better times ahead for the environment
A presentation given by Simon Evans, our Chief Executive, on the severe flooding yet again experienced in the Usk Valley this winter
A Natural Resources Wales’s review on phosphate could help to prevent future Wye algal blooms
1.5kms of the protected SSSI river in Herefordshire has been wrecked
Recently published scientific research is showing a recovery in these areas
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