Future generations deserve healthy, thriving landscapes 💚
Rewilding could give them that and so much more. In our new report, we’re calling for Wales to commit to becoming a Rural Youth Nation — providing young people with draws and rewards to live and work in rural Wales.
#CymruDyfodol #Nature
Catch me on BBC Wales (March 11) - radio, news and website - covering our recent paper on pet-flea treatments, sheep-dip chemicals and some surprising revelations about how they reach streams and rivers
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At the Welsh Rewilding Alliance, we have five core principles which guide everything we do 💪
They make sure the work we do benefits nature, people and Cymru.
If you want to see a wilder Wales, join us. Sign up to our newsletter via the link in our bio.
#Rewilding #WelshRewildingAlliance #Cymru
Our latest newsletter is out featuring opportunities to work with us at Friends of the River Wye, plus C4 drama Dirty Business, legal challenges on the Wye taken by River Action and Fish Legal and more…
Please subscribe if you don’t already!
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Very happy to be representing @righttoroam.bsky.social as a member of this new rewilding alliance, and to have authored its launch report: The Welsh Way to Wild.
1) Read the report and sign up to the mailing list at: rewildingalliance.cymru
2) Give the alliance a follow: @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru
Rydym yn falch o gefnogi @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru Mae Cynghrair Ailwylltio Cymru yn fudiad sy’n tyfu ac sy’n uno sefydliadau, tirfeddianwyr, cymunedau a’r rhai sy’n gwneud penderfyniadau i adfer ecosystemau ffyniannus, rhoi hwb i fywoliaethau yng nghefn gwlad a dathlu tirweddau Cymru & natur wyllt
We are proud to be supporters of the Welsh Rewilding Alliance @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru a growing movement uniting organisations, landowners, communities and decision-makers to restore thriving ecosystems, boost rural livelihoods and celebrate Welsh landscapes & wild nature.
rewildingalliance.cymru
📢 It’s International Women’s Day, & we’re celebrating the incredible women standing up for our rivers. ✊💙
From swimmers to scientists, campaigners to citizen scientists, lawyers to storytellers - women across the UK are leading the charge clean up our rivers, lakes & seas.
#InternationalWomensDay
Fish Legal launches Judicial Review which targets the River Wye Diffuse Water Pollution Plan, published by EA at end of 2025. This is great news.
See our response to the plan from last year here:
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“The EA’s own plan accepts that the Wye will not recover under current approach. When the law requires action, regulators cannot...postpone hard decisions yet again. After years of delay & continuing damage to a protected river, that is no longer lawful.” Fish Legal 💪
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Hello—Is a River Alive? is published in paperback in the UK today.
It’s dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Thanks to all who’ve supported its journey into the world: read it, talked about it, got in touch.
It’s @waterstones.bsky.social book of the month.
“Hope is the thing with rivers…”
Today, full legal protection has been granted in Wales and beavers are recognised as a native species by the Welsh Government. This brings Wales in line with Scotland & England, ensuring cross-border consistency.
Find out more 👇 1/4
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👉 YOUR VOICE MATTERS: Help end the toxic sewage sludge scandal!
💩 Toxic #SewageSludge is STILL spread on farmland in England under outdated rules.
The risks have been known for years. Solutions exist. Now the Government must decide whether to strengthen the rules… 🧵1/2 bit.ly/4aYbNZj
“Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to clean water, has singled out the English system for criticism, saying water should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.”
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⚠️ This green water isn’t sewage pollution. But it’s just as deadly.
This is phosphate pollution - and it’s choking the Rivers Wye and Severn. ☠️
One major source? Industrial poultry units. 🐔💩.
Last year, around 200 local residents objected to the expansion of 3 poultry mega-farms in Powys.. 1/2🧵
We’re watching #DirtyBusiness tonight at 9pm. Are you? 👀💧
To launch @channel4tv.bsky.social's explosive new factual drama, 4Creative has unveiled The Fountain of Filth on London’s South Bank - a bold installation forcing Britain’s #sewagescandal into the spotlight.. 🧵1/2
TV tonight: a furious drama about water companies dumping raw sewage
Our North Hfdshire MP @EllieChowns has been a strong advocate for the Wye & Lugg, pressing Parliament to take action to stop pollution and restore our rivers.
On Valentine’s Day she joined our Citizen Scientists for hands-on water testing 💧
📸 just.jon.simpson
#LoveTheLugg
Ellie smiling in waders holding a net while stood in the river
Ellie looking through binoculars alongside two men from the Herefordshire Ornithological Club
Ellie holding a test tube and conducting water sampling with two citizen scientists
Ellie conducting a Riverfly survey with volunteers
Absolutely brilliant to spend Valentine's Day on a mission to #LovetheLugg, meeting with local businesses, volunteers, farmers, and citizen scientists whose work shows just how vital the rivers are to wildlife, culture, and the local economy. Huge thanks to everyone involved!
Pollution doesn’t stop at the farm gate. But NRW thinks its regulatory responsibility does.
Unless challenged, this creates a regulatory gap, allowing #factoryfarms to expand while rivers continue to suffer.
READ MORE: riveractionuk.com/news/river-a...
#rescuebritainsrivers
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
River Action has launched a legal challenge against Natural Resources Wales (NRW) after it approved three poultry mega-farm expansions in the Wye and Severn river catchments.. 🧵1/2
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It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
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You’ve been misled by this little red tractor..
The advertising watchdog has ruled that @RedTractorFood misled shoppers with its environmental claims
But these retailers still use the @redtractorfood label to reassure shoppers that their food meets environmental standards.. 🧵1/2
Herefordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy is being finalised:
HAVE YOUR SAY!
To make the LNRS the best it can be, it needs people, with local knowledge, to submit feedback before the consultation closes -Sunday 22 March
www.herefordshire.gov.uk/lnrsconsultation
Here is the link to the first-ever online screening of RAVE ON FOR THE AVON - a joyous, defiant documentary about a community fighting to protect the river they love. The film also features Kim Kaos aka Goddess of the Wye.
Thursday Feb 19 7:30 PM via this link:
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🚨RED TRACTOR MISLEADS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS
It’s time Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons and other supermarkets own up to Red Tractor’s #greenwash and up their standards
- By Amy Fairman, Head of Campaigns at River Action UK.
READ MORE 🔽 #rescuebritainsrivers
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Can healthy rivers exist without healthy wetlands? 🌱🌊
Wetlands are among the UK’s most powerful natural allies in supporting healthy rivers.
They’re under threat, but restoration IS possible.
This #WorldWetlandsDay, be part of the change.🌍
👉 visit wwt.org.uk
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There is huge local effort in North Herefordshire to tackle agricultural pollution in the Wye & Lugg - but we need proper government support for the solutions local people want: farmer-led landscape recovery projects; more funding and teeth for the EA, and a WPZ for the Wye.
Policy must be based on evidence to be effective – so why, given agricultural pollution makes up 40% of the pollution in our waterways, did the government’s Water White Paper dedicate only a single page to addressing it?
