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Clean Up of the Back Stream in Loudwater by Revive the Wye and other Volunteers
Revive the Wye volunteers have just been joined by volunteers from Loudwater Forum and St Peter’s Church in tasks on 8th, 10th and 17th November to improve the back stream alongside Kingsmead Road, and the Wye within boundary park. around 50 volunteers were involved...
Balsam bashing 2018
We'd like to thank all the RtW volunteers who helped with this year’s balsam bashing tasks. Ten sites were identified this year where Indian Balsam plants were growing and could be accessed, and we had a very good response from our volunteers when we suggested 10...
Purchase of new tools funded by Friends of the Wye
We are pleased to announce that Friends of the Wye have donated £200 to buy new gloves and secateurs for Revive the Wye volunteer work parties. New secateurs will be welcome by all the volunteers who have recently struggled with ones that stick or don't work, and...
Days and days of balsam bashing
Over the last few years we have succeeded in removing vast swathes of Indian balsam from the river banks mostly on WDC land, all the way from the Fire Station to Wooburn. Every year there are smaller and smaller patches of new growth, all in difficult to reach places....
New species of damselfly larva found at Desborough Rec
In a recent riverfly monitoring task at Desborough Rec, a new damselfly larva species was found and identified as a banded demoiselle. This species has probably been attracted to the site as a result of the stream improvements as it likes lots of streamside vegetation...
River improvements at Bourne End
The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project in partnership with Chiltern Rangers CIC, the Environment Agency and a hardy bunch of volunteers completed work to improve habitat along a 150m long section of the river adjacent to Bourne End Recreation Ground in March. The river...
Coming soon to the river at Bourne End ………..
Excerpt from Environment Agency West Thames Fisheries Autumn Round-up 2015 - Low cost fish passes. Many weirs represent a barrier to fish passage; including those within the Environment Agency’s hydrometric network. Most of the impounding structures within the...
Corporate volunteering event at Desborough Park
On Thursday 30th July about 25 people from DEFRA came to Desborough Park for a corporate volunteering day organised by the Revive the Wye Project. Four RTW task leaders were assisted by members of the Environment Agency and Wycombe District Council and the work...
Funges Meadow makeover
Funges Meadow has had a makeover. On Monday 29th June, Tuesday 30th June and Wednesday 8th July, a small number of RTW volunteers, along with numerous corporate volunteers, turned up at Funges Meadow Nature Reserve to help with tasks organised and supervised by the...
Wye Dene river clearance
On Saturday 13th June, a small number of local residents turned up by the Wye where it flows through the Wye Dene housing development, to remove some of the rubbish from the river. A RTW volunteer task leader attended in the capacity of task leader, trainer and...
Riverfly monitoring progress
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. This photo shows the typical level of...
River Wye Conservation Group gears up a level
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...
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