Incredible work! Such a brilliant new resource 🙏

We’re launching The Riverside Code today on #EarthDay

It’s our answer to the question: ‘What can I do for the river?’

Read all about it:

friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/riverside-code

This is a dream job for an ecologist eager to investigate the loss of ranunculus on the Rivers Wye & Usk, and the conditions that best facilitate its recovery.

Come & work with us on a project to help restore this key species.

We’ve EXTENDED THE DEADLINE on applications for the job of ‘Ranunculus Project Lead’ until 4th May to give more time for candidates to submit their CV and covering letter.

Calling ecologists passionate about water crowfoot.

Please share widely!

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Join us outside the High Court! Stand with the Wye & Usk Defenders. 🪧

📍 Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
⏰ 08:30 assemble | 09:00 media | 10:00 hearing
📧 drew@riveractonuk.com

And don’t forget - wear blue! 💙🩵

Find our more & register attendance: bit.ly/42eY6ky

#RescueOurRivers

The Welsh are reclaiming rewilding Rewilding has been a dirty word in Wales. It's time to embrace it, writes Jon Moses of the Welsh Rewilding Alliance.

A (quite personal) essay from me about reclaiming rewilding in Wales, out in @inkcapjournal.bsky.social today.

I was born, raised and still live in rural Wales. My ancestral farmhouse is a ruin surrounded by conifer trees. I understand the fears.

But it's the loss of nature I fear far more.

Glad to see the EA declaring this sewage pollution of the Pinsley Brook from Welsh Water illegal.

Thanks to the woman who spotted and first reported this constant discharge and to Hereford Times for first reporting on it.

We attended and confirmed grim state.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top of the Poops | Live Sewage | 174de6d66cb550fdf8a5de9551c51140f3689448e67509b3ce6cc28906ee652d | 1,259 hours so far in 2026 Analysing sewage dumps by water companies

And it’s still spilling…
Full data here: top-of-the-poops.org/overflow/174...

Water firm’s month-long spills into Herefordshire brook ‘illegal’ Overflows at a Herefordshire sewage plant that have been going on for over a month are illegal and could lead to enforcement action against the…

Update on Welsh Water’s Kingsland - Pinsley Brook sewage spill. Environment Agency: “This is not a permitted storm overflow and as such these discharges are illegal”
www.herefordtimes.com/news/2600069...

UWE Bristol leads £1m research into agricultural pollution in River Wye | UWE Bristol

Kicking the can down the road, 3 YEARS of delay that Wye catchment can’t afford. The problems have been identified for years and we know the solutions: Stop poisoning our rivers with animal manure and sewage. Bring in a WPZ now to give strong regulation & real protection
www.uwe.ac.uk/news/river-wye

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mum's alarm at month-long discharge from sewage plant into brook A sewage treatment plant by a Herefordshire village overflowed into a local stream during the whole of March, and is still doing so – to the alarm…

Welsh Water DwrCymru Kingsland sewage plant month long discharge (Pinsley brook - Lugg - Wye).

Over the years she has already noticed a decline in wildlife on the brook, coupled with an increase in "green slime"

And it’s still spilling…

www.herefordtimes.com/news/2598935...

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

the UK is set to change planning rules to make it easier to develop intensive livestock farms across the country following a lobbying campaign by Big Chicken

my new investigation for the @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drawing on dozens of scientific papers, the authors warned that environmental policies were insufficient to reverse the decline of the soils, pollinators, water courses and habitats on which farmers depended and said that “transformational change” was required to restore them.

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

Ministers ignored a report warning that Britain’s food supply is on course to collapse.

The report said climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability were undermining food security so much that it could be at risk of "catastrophic failure” by 2030.

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

BREAKING:
Huge news:
The contents of a secret U.K. Govt report on Britain’s ‘critical systems’ and their grave vulnerability have just now been made public by the TIMES, for the very first time.

Short impt THREAD…

Rivers are the lifeblood of our landscapes - but in many constituencies like mine, they're under threat.

It was an honour to present my petition on behalf of constituents, calling on the govt to take further action to address pollution and save the River Wye and its tributaries.

The film is co-directed by Vey Straker and Charlotte Sawyer, & produced by Vey Straker and Kim Kaos. Commissioned as part of the Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival 2025, organised by Cambridge Past, Present & Future, with funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and sponsored by Save the Wye.

The film follows the Wye Ceremonial Team as they respond to the River Wye’s ecological crisis through protest, artistry and ritual. A powerful story of love, resistance, and reconnecting with the living world.

Q&A exploring:
- What ceremony can offer environmental movements
- How communities can create meaningful moments of solidarity and remembrance
- The role of ritual activism in sustaining long-term campaigns
- How creative approaches can broaden participation and hope

Film Screening + Q&A: Ritual, Art and Ceremony in Environmental Campaigning Join River Action UK for an online screening of Remember to Remember, followed by a live Q&A on ceremony in campaigning.

TONIGHT - free online @riveractionuk.bsky.social River Rescue Kit session: Remember to Remember, a film about Wye Ceremonial Team’s work responding to ecological crisis through creativity, love, and collective action. Plus Q&A.
www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...

Britain's waterways are vital resources for our communities, local economies, and wildlife - they must be protected, for people and planet.

That means taking a truly joined up approach to pollution, tackling sewage and agricultural pollution alike. #WorldWaterDay

Wreath dedication Thames 22/3/26

Thank you

We are winning the argument, now we need to see the relevant authorities act accordingly, so please ACT NOW.
Thank you!

So please can you to object, ideally before Monday, by clicking on the ‘Make a comment’ button here as soon as possible: pa.powys.gov.uk/online-appli...

There are various boxes you can simply tick to register an objection. Then at the bottom there is a ‘Your Comment’ box.

@fishlegal.bsky.social are taking Environment Agency, DEFRA and Natural England to court for failing to evaluate a Water Protection Zone for the Wye. Read more here: fishlegal.net/2026/03/05/e...

River Action launches legal challenge, accusing NRW of “washing its hands” of intensive poultry pollution - River Action UK Environmental charity River Action has launched a judicial review challenging Natural Resources Wales (NRW)’ approval of three expanded poultry farms in Powys, accusing the regulator of “washing its h...

There’s a groundswell of voices objecting to the continuing intensification of the poultry industry:

@riveractionuk.bsky.social are currently taking NRW to court for giving a permit for the expansion at Neuadd Isaf. Read more here riveractionuk.com/news/river-a...

Neuadd Isaf objection guidance Add your voice to say ‘NO!’ to more intensive poultry units in the Wye catchment We need your help to send in objections to Powys County Council here: https://pa.powys.gov.uk/online-applications/appli...

Our document gives guidance on how and where to object: bit.ly/Neuadd-Isaf