Riverfly Update
by Hannah Parry-Wilson
Riverfly is a citizen science method of investigating water quality and chalk stream health by recording the presence and abundance...
Riverfly is a citizen science method of investigating water quality and chalk stream health by recording the presence and abundance...
Watch again: Professor Kate Heppell of the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project on ITV Meridian News at Ewelme Brook.
Alice Dancer is a brand new volunteer who’s just got started with citizen science volunteering, helping to monitor the health of the River Chess chalk stream. Here, she shares what she’s been learning so far!
Find out what's been happening with Citizen Scientists and the Smarter Water Catchment!
A coalition of conservation and river organisations is working to tackle a major threat to our chalk streams in the Chilterns: groundwater abstraction for our water supply.
Water Saving Week 2022 ran from 23rd to 30th May. The River Chess Smarter Water Catchment Project team put together some pointers on being mindful of saving water.
Find out more about the Chalk Streams Project's schools activities and new school opportunities!
The Chalk Stream and Wetlands Meadows project to extend the habitat for local populations of water voles at Restore Hope, Latimer, has already begun but more needs to be done!
Read the River Chess Smarter Water Catchment Team's latest update on how the project is progressing and how they are working to create a place where people are working together to protect and improve the water environment for everyone.
Part of the Chilterns Conservation Board’s £2.4 Million pound National Lottery Heritage Funded, Landscape Partnership Scheme, Chalk Cherries and Chairs, Water in a Dry Landscape is a project which aims to find out more about the health of the chalk streams which rise from the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern hills.