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Below is the latest and greatest new from West Cumbria Rivers Trust:
We’re urging drivers on the A591 just north and south of Keswick to slow down as the annual frog, toad and newt migration across the road gets underway.Every year, amphibians move from winter hibernation spots to their breeding p…
Work has started on a natural flood management project at Whinlatter Forest which aims to help slow the flow of water towards Lorton and the River Cocker.In partnership with Forestry England and the Environment Agency, we’re installin…
Restoring rivers, helping to reduce flood risk and improving water quality and habitats - it’s all in a year’s work for us, despite the challenge of working during the pandemic.We delivered more on-the-ground environmental …
We will create more than 10 hectares of woodland and 5.6 km of hedgerow this winter by planting over 51,000 trees and hedge plants as part of our range of natural flood management and river habitat improvement projects across the West …
Work is well underway on a major natural flood management project aiming to benefit Keswick, despite the challenges of working during the pandemic in 2020.We’re working with farmers and landowners on a three-year £735,000 catchment r…
In the Bootle area we’ve been working closely with Bootle Flood Action Group on a natural flood management project in the River Annas catchment area that aims to help reduce flood risk to the village.In partnership with farmers and landow…
Work on our three-year community project to improve Longlands Lake and the River Keekle near Cleator Moor is making progress, despite the challenges of Covid-19.The three-year People on the Keekle project is funded by Sellafield Ltd and com…
Work has successfully continued throughout 2020 on our two-year natural flood management project which aims to help reduce flood risk to the village of Flimby.We’re working with farmers and landowners in the catchment area above Flimby to…
The ancient and internationally protected freshwater mussel is critically endangered in Europe with only a handful of populations remaining in England. The River Ehen in West Cumbria is home to the only one of these populations still showin…
We’re delighted to have been awarded £380,000 by the government’s new Green Recovery Challenge Fund to extend our existing Glenderamackin and Cocker catchment restoration and natural flood management projects. With this addit…
