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Good luck to all GCSE Geographers tackling your final paper today! Our monitoring team were out yesterday doing MoRPh assessments on the River Gissage — collecting habitat data to support natural flood management, just like you’ve studied! 🌍📊 #naturalfloodmanagement

Last week, we held our AGM and it was a valuable opportunity for Trustees and staff to come together, share ideas and future goals, and hear from team members across the organisation about the important work they do every day to protect and improve the rivers of the Westcountry.

Out in the field last week installing a series of leaky dams as part of our natural flood management work. Using winches to manoeuvre timber into place, these features help slow the flow, reduce flood risk downstream, and boost habitat diversity. #NaturalFloodManagement

Happy Summer Solstice 🌞 we hope everyone is getting out in nature today if they can and enjoying the longest day! 🌿☀️✨ #Summersolstice #Nature

Two projects both aligning land use and natural flood management (NFM) in the lower Otter. Come and speak to us to find out more on July 17th at Bicton College.

So lovely to receive this wonderful feedback from a landowner we supported through our Woodland for Water project, all about our amazing advisor Raf!

Beautiful footage of a Beautiful Demoiselle by Katy in the Rivers & Fisheries team today. The larvae of which can only thrive in natural bodies of water that have little human influence. Another in a long list of reason to care for our water courses.

Some of our team recently tackled a trailer training course. WRT doggo Django felt his performance could have been better!

Next up in our Green Careers spotlight, Lucia and Sarah. Read through their interviews to learn more about their different roles and the diverse backgrounds of our staff here at WRT 🍃🌼🌱🐟

WRT staff members have been out in force this week tackling Invasive non-native Himalayan Balsam on the Waterloo Stream, which is a beautiful tributary of the River Camel. #Invasivespeciesmanagement #balsambashing #conservationcharity #riverconservation #INNS

We were thrilled to host our final #FarmNetZero workshop at the beautiful Woodland Valley Farm, with huge thanks to our hosts and to Budding Nature for delivering a thought-provoking session on the importance of ecological processes and natural food webs.

Nature’s colourful caretakers are hard at work in our grasslands. 🌾🦋 Captured by WRT’s Senior Monitoring Officer Holly while out on her travels, this snapshot shows the Six-spot Burnet Moth to the left and Cinnabar moth caterpillar and Solider beetle to the right.

Here we have the native white-clawed crayfish—now found in only 2 Devon rivers. They’re being outcompeted by the invasive American signal crayfish (also shown). Biosecurity is key to stopping the spread. #WRTFieldwork #InvasiveSpecies #CleanCheckDry

Looking for your next role in conservation? Westcountry Rivers Trust is looking for two Project Officers to support our work to restore and protect the freshwater environments of the Westcountry for the benefit of people, wildlife and local economies. loom.ly/M302DLI

After the DRIP board meeting the project partners headed to a site outside Exeter to see the fantastic work some small, furry contractors had been carrying out to help mitigate flooding on behalf of the Devon Wildlife Trust. #beavers#DRIP #floodmitigation #beavers

Nicola, Holly & Helen joined partners in Athens for the #UrbaQuantum EU Horizon kick-off. Experts from 7 countries will improve urban water management. WRT leads the UK case study with South West Water & University of Exeter.

Come along to our East Devon Resilience Showcase on the 2nd of August at East Budleigh Village Hall. The event will highlight the amazing work taking place across East Devon.See our Eventbrite link for more information and to book your place.

More great work from the WRT Operations Team delivering DRIP (Devon Resilience Innovation Project) in Bampton! Making use of materials on site, from some alder stools they built leaky woody dams to slow the flow and reduce flood risk downstream.

This week WRT made their way across the country to take part in the CaSTCo quarterly meeting in Norwich. The meeting brought together partners from all over the UK to share knowledge and wins about citizen science in river conservation. The Rivers Trust

Catch-meadows, an old solution to a modern problem, but do you think they'll help reduce the impact of flooding? #catchmeadows #rrc #rapidresponsecatchments @devonfloodresilience #fcermstrategy #fcrip #devon #floodresilience #communityresilience #naturalfloodmanagement