Thrilled to see the 3 new wildlife ponds we've dug at the top of the Winterbourne chalk stream catchment are filling up nicely! 💪💦
They provide ecological resilience, support a wide diversity of wildlife, restore connectivity to the floodplain, and provide natural flood management! 🐸🌱🐞🐍🦆
Raise a glass to these legends who braved the wind & rain to plant a cross-slope hedgerow in Newhaven 🙌
Part of the Ouse valley natural flood management project, this hedgerow will encourage water to infiltrate & create connectivity for wildlife! 🌳💦💪
Thanks to Lewes District Council for support!👏
📢📯 Exciting job alert klaxon 📣👀
The South Downs National Park Authority are hiring a Strategy Lead for Nature Recovery.
An amazing role with responsibility for the delivery of nature recovery and water elements across the national park! 💦🐟🌳🐸
Check it out:
www.southdowns.gov.uk/job/strategy...
No doubt one day...
A super productive day of wetland management with a team from Arcadis 👌 💪 🙂
Sections of reeds & bullrush cut to allow space for the winter rains & wetland plants dug to translocate to restored sections of the Cockhaise brook. 🌾💦🌱
Huge flocks of goldies on the teasels ♥️ 🐦
Fantastic to be out on the river Uck & tributaries looking at new #naturalfloodmanagement opportunities! 💦🦆🐟🌳
If you are a landowner, or know of suitable sites for scrapes, ponds, hedges, leaky barriers, river rewiggling etc. get in touch at info@oart.org.uk
#UckAdaptation
Twelve bags of rubbish collected from the Lewes Winterbourne stream channel today! 💪💦👌
We also opened up a large section of overshaded stream to more light to encourage a more diverse range of marginal stream vegetation.
Huge thanks to Environment Agency & Lewes District Council for support 🙌
A beautiful afternoon for some wetland management with a great team. Super effort 👌 💪 🙂
Sections of reeds cut and bullrush managed to allow space for the winter rains and encourage the diversity of marginal wetland plants. 🌾💦🌱
Egrets, buzzards, herons, woodpecker and kestrel kept us company ♥️ 🐦
Hugely exciting to be planting up our 3 new Winterbourne #ponds & creating some great amphibian/ invert habitat today! 🐸 🦎
They are filling up nicely & the shelves/margins now have many native marginal #wetland plants. 🌾🌱🌼
Fab to see greater water boatman, common darter dragonfly pond skaters!
Huge kudos to our River Rangers who turned up for a soggy but successful wetland management session today! 👏🦆💦🐸
💧Willow hide trimmed
💧Wetland plants translocated
💧Pampas, buddleia & gourse managed
💧Channel cleared for winter
After such a dry year, the rain was welcome when it did arrive 🙏
Classed as 'reprotoxic', EEA-NH4 is a type of PFAS that can harm sexual function, fertility + child development.
In 2023, we exposed a plant in Lancashire releasing almost 800kg into the River Wyre - so why isn't the curent EA investigation testing for it?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A really successful volunteer day resolving erosion that was undercutting Haredean allotments on the Lewes Winterbourne stream.💧👌
Nicely stabilised with natural coir matting and wooden pegs. Thanks to the Environment Agency for support and funding! 🙌
That's a wrap!
Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪
Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄
Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏
Fantastic sunny day for stream enhancements! 🐟🌞
River Rangers got stuck into channel clearing, bird hide weaving, strimming & reed cutting. 🙋♂️👏🙋♀️
Lucky to be serenaded by green woodpeckers, Cetti's warbler, kingfisher, buzzards and coots. The herons gave us a flyover too!
Very exciting to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks restoration project underway this week with ditch management! 🚜👷💪
Over the course of the project interventions will benefit a range of wildlife & restore habitat in this floodplain grazing marsh!
Great partnership with Lewes District Council👏
Senior Project Officer - Urban Water Quality with @OuseAdurRT.bsky.social hybrid between Office in Pulborough and home working, full-time position c-js.uk/3VlVpdJ
Check out this film one of our volunteers was inspired to make after taking part in a chalk stream restoration day, removing non-native species & litter from the Lewes Winterbourne!🌾👍
Nice work, John White 👏
That's a wrap! A genuinely brilliant week of berm building with our unbelievable River Rangers to finish off our Teville stream restoration!🤩🪇👌
As well as 12 berms that remeander the stream, we've been translocating native marginal and wetland plants into last year's silt-filled berms.🌾💪💦 🐸🦋🐍🐟🐦
It seems the most surefire way of getting a heatwave is to book in a week of berm making!🔥☀️💦🤩
Huge kudos to our incredible volunteers restoring rivers in this heat! 🎖🪇🏅
Kingfishers, coots, rudd, frogs, & dragonflies have all been enjoying the remeandered Teville chalkstream! 🐸 🦋🦆🐟
Great to get the last stubborn patch of Himalayan Balsam removed from the top of Lewes Winterbourne!😍💪🐟🌿
One day, this chalkstream will be INNS free!
#invasivenonnativespecies
Not all heroes wear capes!
Some legends volunteer to restore chalk streams in a heatwave! 💦🔥
Great to get 4 berms completed in the last week. We can't wait to see the marginal habitat that emerges bursting with life! 🦆🐸🐟🐍🌿🦋🐞
Baby coots, grass snakes, fritillaries, and frogs have already visited!
A fantastically productive day out Balsam bashing. Cleared three large sections of bank on the Cockhaise Brook which flows into the Ouse. 💦🌿💪
Lovely to see native bird's-foot trefoil, purple loosestrife, water plantain, & water mint emerging on sections of river bank we have previously cleared 😀
Absolute legends making berms today to re-meander a straightened and over deepened bit of stream.
Thankfully plenty of shade to work in away from the scorching sun!
We got our first wildlife visitor too 🐸
📢📣Amazing opportunity klaxon!! 📢📣
Our friends and partners at Weald to Waves are hiring a Landscape Advisor to help restore biodiversity along a 100-mile nature recovery corridor through the heart of Sussex! 🦔🦇🦫🦆🐍🐟🐞🦋🌳
www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/106346-...
Spread the word! 🙏 🙌
Thrilled to share what we've been up to for the last week, digging 3 huge new wildlife ponds as part of the Winterbourne chalk stream restoration plan!💪💦
These will support a wide diversity of wildlife, restore connectivity to the floodplain, provide flood attenuation & store carbon! 🐸🌱🐞🐍🦆🐟
Yay!
Super exciting to find such a great range of freshwater invertebrates continuing to thrive at our Cockshut wetland, including mayflies, diving beetles, ramshorn snails, cased caddis & dragonfly and damselfly larvae! 💦🪱🐚🪳😍
The diverse habitats are clearly supporting an abundance of life!🐍🐞🦋🐟🤩
A genuine delight to show the Western Sussex Rivers Trust & other local catchment partners around our EPIC and Cockshut wetlands today!👌🐟💦🐸
Loads of good knowledge sharing and ideas, despite the occasional drizzle!
#MakeRiversBendAgain
Really nice to see the resilience of our Cockshut wetland even after such a dry spring! ☀️🌡
More islands & marginal bank emerging but deep pools & the low flow channel are still going strong, providing vital wetland habitats for a wealth of wildlife! 🐸🪿🐍🐟🦋🐞
Great partnership @lewesdc.bsky.social 👏💪
Great to be out with the River Rangers again today, doing a site reptile survey, cutting reeds, lopping brambles, & removing spent rabbit guards.😘💦🐟🐍🌱
So many damsel & dragonflies buzzing the channel, & our volunteer Ian White spotted this lovely Mother Shipton moth! 🦋
Great work team💪💧👍
A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪
Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne!
Top effort 👏
