by Judy | Jul 15, 2015 | Project
Revive the Wye volunteers are already monitoring 3 sites on the Wye and one of its back-streams. We want to recruit and train more volunteers so that we can regularly monitor more sites.If you are interested please contact us.
Local interest
This photo shows the typical level of public interest in what we are doing when we are sampling next to the footbridge in Fryers Lane.
See our
projects page for an explanation of Riverfly monitoring and more pictures.
by Judy | May 15, 2015 | RTW
Tools handover April 29th
The Revive the Wye (RTW) Partnership has now received a range of new equipment funded by local environmental groups. This will enable RTW to conduct more volunteer conservation work along the River Wye and its associated network of waterways.
The new equipment, from Bow Saws and Hay Forks to Waders and Wheelbarrows, has been funded by four of RTW’s key partners – the Chiltern Society, The High Wycombe Society, Wycombe Wildlife Group and the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project. Another RTW key partner, the Chiltern Rangers, will provide storage space for the new equipment.
by Judy | Apr 24, 2015 | Project
We are delighted that the first phase of some exciting developments at Funges Meadow Nature Reserve has been completed This work was made possible with the help of £12,000 of external funding secured by Revive the Wye as part of an innovative partnership between Revive the Wye and Chiltern Rangers to develop the Funges Meadow Nature Reserve in High Wycombe as a centre for environmental awareness about the River Wye and for practical training for RTW volunteers and supporters (Friends of the Wye). Access to Funges Meadow is controlled by arrangement with Chiltern Rangers to RTW and other local community groups with which Chiltern Rangers work.
by Judy | Apr 23, 2015 | RTW
In previous years the tools/waders used by the Revive the Wye (RTW) conservation volunteers have been provided on an event–by–event basis by the various RTW partners (including Chiltern Rangers, Wycombe District Council, the Environment Agency, Wycombe Wildlife Group and, in the early days, the Chiltern Society). This has often involved the logistical challenges of collecting tools from several locations and transporting them to and from the conservation event sites.
We have got to the stage now where the RTW Steering Group has decided that the Partnership needs to have its own tools to overcome the various logistical issues and also problems with the condition and limited sizes of some of the borrowed kit (e.g. waders).
We have raised £2200 from the Chiltern Chalk Streams Project, Chiltern Society, High Wycombe Society and Wycombe Wildlife Group and procured the new tools.The Chiltern Rangers have kindly agreed to allow RTW use of their premises for storing kit, which will be a great help.
A handover event is planned for the afternoon of Wednesday 29 April 2015 alongside the main River Wye stream on the north side of King’s Mead. (See Event calendar for details)
