by Luke Park | 15 Jan, 2019 | Blog
Work to improve the upper Avon in 2018 included green bank protection, tree planting, fencing and drainage works. Find details of each of these works below. Brash bank protection This is the process of pinning brash (bits of tree) to an eroded bank. This brash acts...
by Amy Fergusson | 7 Nov, 2018 | Blog
The RiverLife River Table made an appearance at the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers National Conference on the 27th of October. Amy and Jonathan went along to impart some Dynamic Rivers wisdom to the teachers (and let them have a shot on the River Table!)....
by AmeliaH | 30 Oct, 2018 | Blog
Our RiverRubbish project has been rolling along well, this is the first time we have run volunteer and public events specifically around the issue of litter and sewage in our rivers. This season’s project has been based at the Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, a...
by Luke Park | 16 Oct, 2018 | Blog
RiverLife have teamed up with Eadha Enterprises, a social enterprise focusing on rare native trees, to deliver an aspen project based in the Almond and Avon catchments. Aspen supports more biodiversity than any other native tree and, while it is widespread across the...
by Jonathan Louis | 16 Feb, 2018 | Blog
By Lorna Oldershaw In addition to practical conservation volunteer days, we will also be continuing to control invasive species on the river banks and to survey invertebrates as part of the ARMI Riverfly Monitoring Scheme, both of which we need volunteers to help...
by Jonathan Louis | 16 Feb, 2018 | Blog
By Lorna Oldershaw The final RiverLife volunteering days of 2017 were spent tree planting at Killandean. In total 400 trees were planted over 2 ½ days with the help of both volunteers and Trust staff. The purpose of this planting is to help stabilise the bank of the...
