Tag: Chalkstreams

Rare good news for globally renowned UK chalk streams

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In an age when the state of the UK’s waterways are making depressing headlines, there is a refreshingly good news story developing in one corner of England’s green and pleasant land.

In an age when the state of the UK’s waterways are making depressing headlines, there is a refreshingly good news story developing in one corner of England’s green and pleasant land. The Wessex River Trust is now halfway through a 10-year programme restoring some of Hampshire’s globally-renowned chalk streams – including the River Test and […]

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English riverfly survey reveals abysmal state of once gin clear chalkstreams

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For the first time the once pristine, gin-clear English chalkstreams and rivers have been put under the microscope in a national survey to compare and investigate whether they are as healthy as they should be. And the results are truly shocking. The 2015 Riverfly Census, undertaken by Salmon & Trout Conservation UK (S&TC UK) has […]

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