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This is the Llynor. It's one of the cleanest tributaries on the Dee. No farmyards or sewage treatment works upstream. And it's mostly forest, a big section being restored to ancient woodland. But it has a major problem. A 🧵

A very interesting post

An encouraging thread! Nature can recover if given the chance.

There are ways to repair the harm done by humans to nature, but there has to be a will.

A lovely thread about what can be done with our rivers and how they can bounce back. Just imagine what our rivers could be like if we didn’t dump tons of sewage into them.

Great fish pass projects going on all over the UK and world. Letting fish move through their entire ecosystem is one of the best things we can do to restore river ecosystems

Some good work here on environmental restoration.

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The toxic first flush is a real challenge for rivers. Pollutants build up on land, roads and other areas of hard standing during dry weather. It's the flushed into low flowing brooks and rivers with the first rain. At its worst can kill all the fish in a river.

NEW Water company serious pollution incidents surged by 60 per cent last year thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Fencing off rivers from livestock works wonders for marginal plant growth This section of the River Chess was fenced off last year. The plant life has already transformed the channel. ⁦Chilterns National Landscape⁩ ⁦Chiltern Society⁩

Seen the headlines today about the significant rise in sewage pollution incidents? I’m not so sure pollution has SIGNIFICANTLY increased… I suspect it may have been this high (or higher!) for years but we didn’t have a true picture of what’s going on. A short thread 🧵👇

So much good environmental stuff happening in the uplands. The areas known to me are probably going through the most radical nature restoration for centuries. Massive credit to partners like Ullswater Catchment Management CIC who work with farmers like us to get stuff done.

In fact they work with farmers not like us too, and that’s the secret to their success - they just get on with stuff and work with us all Won the European Rive Prize in 2022 (with partners) and gone from strength strength since then

And they completely avoid the nonsense about sheep because it’s dumb and alienating in a great shepherding area They do awesome stuff I think environmentalism is doing stuff - any fool can talk to their own in-crowd

James Rebanks We avoid the nonsense over sheep, simply because we’ve worked with so many sheep farms that have good habitats on them Goes against the grain, I know, but how can you restore nature at scale by excluding one of the largest sectors We’re very proud of our sheep farming heritage

Earlier this year we lost a large area of rented hay meadows at short notice, which gave us two choices 1) find more fodder or 2) sell the cows. We were lucky that the opportunity came up to buy a standing crop of clover nearby.