Wessex Chalk Stalkers

25/02/2021

Hi, if you might be interested in what a volunteer group gets up to on a little stream in Wiltshire that becomes the Salisbury Avon please follow PARR - Pewsey Avon River Restoration - many thanks!

24/02/2021

Hi All, it's probably not gone unnoticed that there have been no posts or updates here since Christmas! I haves been working on a project to form a volunteer group to monitor, conserve & restore my local river (Salisbury Avon) where l live, right at the top of the catchment. I plan to run an Instagram account for our volunteer group & anyone interested in what we get up to, as part of that l will be posting much of what goes on here on that group page.
I'll give a little notice & our group contact details if you would like to follow us before closing this page down in the next week or so! Thanks all, appreciate your attention. Stu.

14/09/2020

One minute of your time...

28/08/2020

is the man for the Salisbury Avon catchment, as both the Upper Avon tributaries run right through his patch & what happens here affects all the river downstream...

If so, now is a good time to write to your MP! The inaugural meeting of a new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on chalkstreams will meet on 15 September 2020, led by Sir Oliver Heald and Sir Charles Walker. APPGs are there to gather MPs with common interests or common constituency…

21/08/2020

letting loose on the state of our,yes our, Chalkstreams, fascinating Fly Culture Magazine pod cast with . If your interested in saving our Chalkstreams give it a listen & get inspired.

I talk with Feargal about his love of fly fishing and his battle in highlighting the abuse of the river systems across the UK by water companies. From the abstraction of chalk streams that, in some cases, are now running dry to what seems the cons...

27/07/2020

For anglers and fisheries everywhere, non-native plants, animals and viruses are an accident waiting to happen. So what are the easiest of all to unwittingly transfer to fisheries? Dom Garnett deta…

11/07/2020

Get you response in! Diffuse pollution, water quality, let DEFRA know what you want!

Have you had your say yet? Thinking face

The GWCT has been approached by Defra to respond to its consultation on the future of Environmental Land Management (ELM) policy.

https://gwct.org.uk/blogs/news/2020/june/the-future-of-farming-policy-%E2%80%93-have-your-say/

02/07/2020

An interactive web map showing key water quality risk factors for wild swimmers to consider.

02/07/2020

Please use the interactive map in the article, it may make you rethink where you use the river for your enjoyment.

Untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, data shows

01/07/2020

The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway, check it out in BBC i Player. A fascinating look at the flora & fauna alongside & sometimes below the M25, featuring the River Chess & its Brown Trout.
Naturalist Helen Macdonald explains how rare chalkstream habitat is. Are UK Chalkstreams & their ecosystems our Amazon & rainforest?

25/06/2020

Plant Alert is a citizen science project for gardeners, designed to help horizon scanning for newly invasive species before they turn into a problem. More details here >> https://plantalert.org/