SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION FUNDS DRAW TO A CLOSE
20th April 2023Since 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 […]
OUR VOLUNTEERS BREAK RECORDS!
We want to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers who helped us through 2022. The year was a record breaking year reaching 4941 volunteer hours, almost double of previous years! Our work through 2022 included installing over 500m of bankside protection, to reduce sediment entering rivers, removing over 1400 tree guards to […]
FISHING REPORT: 8 DECEMBER 2022
8th December 2022Twenty twenty two will be remembered for the long dry spell of hot weather. River conditions were difficult at best throughout late spring and summer into early autumn. Despite adverse conditions upstream migration counts were encouraging, close to 29,000 counts for the year were recorded at the Riding Mill counter which is in the 5 […]
A SAFE HAVEN FOR NATIVE CRAYFISH
15th November 2022We’ve spent the summer working with a group of volunteers to monitor the locations and population of native white clawed crayfish in the River Rede, as part of our Native North Tyne project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Our Native North Tyne project celebrates what’s interesting and unique about the River North Tyne […]
TACKLING METALS POLLUTION
Our work to reduce pollution from metal mines will be spurred on by our new Tyne Mining Legacy Project Manager, Martin Colling. He will be working on projects to stop a tonne of Lead, Zinc & Cadmium entering the river each year. Martin is an experienced hydrologist who will be focusing on the North Pennines where the primary objective […]
THE LEGACY OF WORKING WITH FARMERS
We’re celebrating the legacy of our farming funds which are drawing to a close, but which we hope will stand Tyne catchment farmers in good stead to manage land in a more environmentally friendly way. The three farming funds covering the Ouseburn, South Tyne and the Don to Derwent, worked with more than 120 farmers […]
