by Nim Kibbler | 23 May, 2019 | Blog
Annie Lord, works as an artist and has been getting involved with the project delivering a number of workshops and the piece at Almondell & Calderwood Country Park. Here’s her thoughts on Sunday’s workshop in Whitburn. As part of the RiverRubbish...
by Amelia | 21 May, 2019 | Blog
On Sunday 19th of May, Scot and Amelia teamed up with Friends of Polkemmet to deliver a litter pick event along the river Almond that runs through Polkemmet Country Park. They were also happy to be joined by members of the West Lothian Litter pickers who kindly...
by Amy Fergusson | 8 May, 2019 | Blog
I volunteered with Forth Rivers Trust to help them with the Fish in the Classroom project. This project is aimed at primary school children in P4/5 classes. The first step was to give the classes the initial presentation about the project. This presentation told the...
by Nim Kibbler | 3 May, 2019 | Blog
Hidden under the surface of our rivers is a microscopic world of beautiful and alien creatures. Most of these animals are the larval form of mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies who spend most of their lives feeding and growing under the water before hatching as...
by Amelia | 30 Apr, 2019 | Blog
About this time every year thousands of tiny buds erupt all around us as we carry on with our daily lives. On a particularly sunny morning we may even notice the stark brightness of green springing out from what seems like everywhere, making those mundane Monday and...
by David Eastwood | 29 Apr, 2019 | Blog
Citizen science into action. I was fortunate to be able to join a team of avid local river volunteers. We were all taking part in training how to monitor fresh water as part of the fresh water watch project. This is a global project generating data on the quality of...
