Newsletter - April 2017

We have completed our investigations and the results are in. To find out what we found read our summary report.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust put together a plan to improve the marsh for wintering waders and wildfowl as well as improving its general biodivers

The East Suffolk Catchments Partnership brought together farmers and local people to visit Natural Flood Management sites upstream of Debenh

Tree planting project along the River Colne, Essex

In almost every supermarket now you will see tubes of tokens for various charities. We were delighted when Waitrose chose Essex and Suffolk

Essex & Suffolk Water, who own and manage Abberton Reservoir, have noticed a rapid reduction in the abundance of submerged plant life in the

In Suffolk we are carrying out a project to address the levels of water available in groundwater aquifers and how we can improve the quality

This great little video succinctly demonstrates why we keep on trying to approach river and water problems on a catchment scale. Thank you t

We attended an excellent event on field drainage and ditching at our corporate sponsor Spains Hall Essex in Essex this week.

Alistair Maltby talks fisheries and EU legislation with Tom Heap on Countryfile

Here’s a clear example of what can happen when it rains hard over vulnerable soils. This is a lose-lose situation with valuable soil and nut

Here’s a great short video explaining what ‘Payments for Ecosystem Services’ actually means, and how it can work.

Check out this short video explaining what the term ‘ecosystem services’ means and how it has enabled the people of New York to get fresh wa

A huge thank you to our corporate sponsors!

After a very busy summer and autumn we have found time to put together a short summary of the work we have done in Suffolk.

Check out the Environment Agency’s catchment data Explorer.

Last weekend saw an unprecedented level of river activity in Chelmsford. With floods, bridge collapses, droughts, building works, tree plant