31st January 2023
Support campaigns for restoring rivers. Allowing rivers to follow their natural course rather than being dredged and straightened helps control flooding and provides a more secure habitat for river wildlife. Cleaning rivers of physical pollutants also helps prevent or limits the affects of flooding – wind blown and carelessly discarded plastic and other rubbish can block inlets and outlets and be a death trap for river wildlife. Cleaning rivers of chemical pollutants enables rivers once more to become vibrant places of biodiversity as well as becoming safe places to bathe!
Clean and biodiverse-rich rivers are rewarding places to spend leisure time and we are increasingly aware of the health benefits of blue spaces. What’s not to like?
https://theriverstrust.org/our-work/cleaning-up-rivers#main-content
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