Natural flood defences installed in Acomb child’s play?
5th June 2023MP for Hexham, Tynedale and Ponteland, Guy Opperman visited Acomb to find out how the game Kerplunk is providing inspiration for flood defences dedicated to reducing flood risk to the community after devastating storm damage by Storm Desmond in 2015. Tyne Rivers Trust have been delivering natural flood management interventions for over 10 years throughout the Tyne catchment […]
Future Farm Payments, Defra Test Workshop
15th May 2023DUNTERLY WETLAND CREATION
24th April 2023We recently worked with a farmer and landowner in the North Tyne Valley to create this 580-metre-long wetland next to the river. The site had previously been drained by a large ditch running through the middle which is the darker green line in the first photo. Blocking the ditch in key places allowed the water […]
TIPALT BURN RESTORED
20th April 2023We recently completed an exciting remeandering project on an important tributary of the Tipalt Burn, near Haltwhistle. This project involved restoring a deepened and straightened channel to its original, highly sinuous route and also re-routed the bulk of the flow to a wetland. As a result, the channel is now 100m longer and is more […]
FISHING REPORT SPRING 2023
Not unexpectedly upstream salmon counts were very low in the first quarter of 2023. A combination of high flows and low water temperatures did not offer ideal migratory conditions. There is a decreasing number of early Atlantic salmon in general and the Tyne is no exception, however the Tyne still offers a chance of a […]
SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION FUNDS DRAW TO A CLOSE
Since 2017, Danielle Anderson Hire, our Farms Liaison Officer, has delivered three Defra funded Countryside Stewardship facilitation funds covering the rivers Ouseburn, South Tyne, Don, Team and Derwent. This 3-year fund, (so good we ran it three times) brought famers and land managers together to improve the natural environment at a landscape scale, organised workshops […]
GLOBAL RECOGNITION FOR HOLISTIC CATCHMENT-SCALE PROJECT IN THE CENTRE OF BRITAIN.
11th April 2023Tyne Rivers Trust were delighted to host Yukihiro Shimatani and his research team from Japan in Haltwhistle this March, sharing project learning and expertise on catchment-scale improvements, citizen science and engagement. The day was full of energised conversation around how elements of The Haltwhistle Burn Project could be applied to tackling 2000km2 in Japan across […]
NORTH EAST INVASIVES STRATEGY
We have been working alongside Tweed, Northumberland, Wear, and Tees Rivers Trusts, Newcastle University, Environment Agency and ERIC NE to reduce the threat of invasive non-native species in our region. As one of the few regions left relatively unimpacted by invasive species, it is vital that we prevent their further spread. A new rapid reporting […]
