28 Oct 2021

The Rivers Trust have also teamed up with a number of other organisations, including lead water company United Utilities, to bid for funding for a Catchment Monitoring Co-operative. The partnership was successful in securing £7.1m from OFWAT’s first Water Breakthrough Challenge, to demonstrate how we can build the evidence base we need to transform our rivers. […]

20 Jul 2021

MMO  Monitoring Marine Plans  ‘Background and purpose Marine planning guides decision making in the marine area, making sure the right activities are carried out in the right place and at the right time. It enables sustainable economic growth while protecting the natural and historic environment, recognising the needs of all. Marine plans form a part […]

08 Jun 2021

A new tranche of monitoring and progress reports from the Skomer MCZ has been added to the NRW website.  In addition to the 2019 Annual Report, the  Project Status Report 2019-20 lists 42 MCZ monitoring projects (mostly biological but including hydrography and human activities), summarises some of these and provides detailed updates on several others.  There […]

23 Mar 2021

Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government have now published updates to the marine monitoring programmes for the state of the UK seas. The document sets out the monitoring programmes we use to measure progress towards Good Environmental Status in the UK seas. It notes the improvements we have made […]

21 Oct 2020

Defra ‘There has been coverage in the Guardian and ENDS Report of ongoing work by the Environment Agency to examine whether more than 50 sites that supply salad and vegetables to supermarkets and other businesses are discharging chemical pollution into rivers and streams. This follows an EA investigation into the salad supplier Bakkavor that found it was discharging […]

20 Oct 2020

Defra seeks views on expanding use of monitoring technology on fishing boats Government to examine roll out of Remote Electronic Monitoring on fishing vessels. Today (Monday 19 October) the Government has opened a call for evidence to examine whether monitoring technology could be used more widely on fishing boats operating in English waters to help support the […]

29 Jul 2020

The Rivers Trust and partners launched the new Catchment Monitoring Cooperative Consultation Hub which we hope will create a radical step-change in the contribution of citizen science and community monitoring. We would really appreciate your input on the below consultation, which will be open until the end of August 2020 We are a cooperative by […]