Friends of the Tawe

The Big River Watch starts tomorrow! Download the app and go record what you see in and on your local river.
We're watching the #Tawe #Abertawe 🦆
#CitizenScience
#TheRiversTrust

24.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to your incredible support, we've hit our target! 💙 But why stop there?

Every extra pound we raise now helps us go further—expanding our river data monitoring. There’s still time to donate until midday 29 April.

👉 Let’s keep going: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

23.04.2025 12:21 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

📢 Your donations, doubled!

From 22–29 April, your donation to The Rivers Trust could be doubled through the #BigGive

Double your impact with just one donation & support data-driven work to protect rivers 👇

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

#EarthDay

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22.04.2025 11:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 Mapping the sewage crisis 💩

Our interactive Sewage Map has been updated with the latest 2024 data, so you can see exactly what happened in our rivers.

Explore where sewage—both treated and untreated—was discharged across England and Wales last year.

theriverstrust.org/sewage-map

03.04.2025 11:06 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2

“Water pollution. £1.3 billion a year in England and Wales.” Below, text explains: “Pollutants, like fertilisers and pesticides, running off fields into rivers and streams are a major cause. Nature-friendly farming can reduce the use of these pollutants.” The scene shows a river flowing through farmland, surrounded by simple illustrations of butterflies and wildflowers. 

£1.3 billion a year. 

 That’s what water pollution is costing England and Wales. 

Nature-friendly farming helps stop harmful fertilisers and pesticides from reaching our rivers. 

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10.04.2025 11:55 — 👍 52    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

Flowering alien - American Skunk Cabbage in woodland.

Anyone free to battle with aliens tomorrow? (19 April)
Join West Wales Rivers Trust+N Wales Wildlife Trust WaREN Project at Margam Country Park to stop non-native, invasive American skunk cabbage from going to seed.
Bring secateurs + wellies. Free parking for vols who meet at the East Gate at 1pm.

18.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Big River Watch Help improve our rivers. T ake part in The Big RiverWatch survey between 25th April and 1st May!

Time to take action to help improve our rivers - your chance to do some 'citizen science' with the Rivers Trust. You can also sign up for the Great UK WaterBlitz. theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

17.04.2025 09:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Image of a clear-running rivulet in sunshine with vegetation on both banks. Tall leafless trees nearby.

A successful morning with at least eight bags of litter collected and the Council notified to clear some fly-tipping. A lovely sunny morning by lakes and the Fendrod, with birdsong blooming celandines and marsh marigolds.

30.03.2025 18:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our friend Tiff Dew, of the West Wales River Trust invites anyone free to join a guided riverside litter-pick in Swansea this Sunday 30th March. It starts at 10.30am Swansea Vale Nature Reserve. Free all-day parking by the meeting point, along the B4625 bordering the NE side of the reserve.

27.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0