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Job Vacancy at Wear Rivers Trust - Project Officer
The Wear Rivers Trust have a vacancy for a Project Officer, for further details, please click here.
Job Vacancy at Tees Rivers Trust - River Officer
The Tees Rivers Trust have a vacancy for a River Officer, for further details, please click here.
Symposium on Managing River Flows for Salmonids
Hosted by the Atlantic Salmon Trust, 26 to 28 January 2010, at the Marriott Hotel, York - for further details, please click here.
Job Vacancy at ART - Finance Officer
The Association of Rivers Trust have a vacancy for a Finance Officer, for further details, please click here.
ART's 2009 Awards Results
ART held it's sixth annual Awards Ceremony at London Wetland Centre, Barnes, London, for further information and results, please click here.
Association of Rivers Trusts response to the draft River Basin Management Plans consultation
ART have submitted a National response to the draft River Basin Management Plans, we feel the final plans must:
- Have more ambition for the first round than is in the current drafts, otherwise WFD delivery will not be achieved. The Rivers Trust movement can help to achieve that higher level of ambition.
- Be clearer about the condition of our rivers and other water bodies in ways that are easily understandable to stakeholder organisations, and offer them clear means by which they can contribute to delivery.
- Recognise that Rivers Trusts can be one of the primary co‐deliverers for many Water Framework Directive activities, including public participation and consultation, monitoring, research, developing plans, raising funds and implementing Programme of Measures.
- Be more transparent about the use of derogations concerning time, technical understanding, feasibility or cost. Plans need to factor in the contribution that Rivers Trusts can make to overcoming these problems so that derogation can be quickly replaced by positive measures.
- Seek to enable, not restrict, future work on catchment and river basin management and seek to develop a system capable of taking account of developments in science, technology, environmental condition, economic stimulae and funding to deliver a dynamic and responsive WFD programme.
- Use WFD planning and measures to influence land use, and drive changes in planning and legislation (such as Common Agricultural Policy reform, PR09, Local Agenda 21, Local Development Frameworks, Habitats and Flooding Directives) to solve problems at source. This includes the need to think big where appropriate and if necessary seek intervention to achieve the desired change.
- Reflect the true breadth of measures possible to achieve WFD objectives, spreading reliance out from ECSFDI and Environmental Stewardship Agreements to incorporate the work of Rivers Trusts.
- Demonstrate the vital nature of a good quality environment as a cornerstone to Sustainable long‐term Economic and Social Development. We feel it is appropriate to highlight WFD Article 9.3 that stipulates the social and economic effects of cost recovery shall not prevent the “funding of preventive or remedial measures in order to achieve the objectives of this Directive”.
The full response can be downloaded or viewed in our Environment section (WFD)
Our Rivers Campaign – Stand up for your River
ART is working with the Angling Trust, RSPB and WWF-UK through the Our Rivers Campaign to raise the level of recognition of rivers amongst MP’s and policy makers during the current consultation on draft River Basin Management Plans. It only takes 5 minutes to stand up for your river and join the ever growing number of enthusiasts making their mark on the map. To find out more about the campaign, stand up for your river and access guidance for every River Basin Management Plan under consultation, go to www.ourrivers.org.uk.
Further information on the Our Rivers Campaign launch can be found here
Lakes for Living, Lakes for Life International Lakes Conference
The conference will be hosted jointly by the Environment Agency and the Lake District National Park and look at the restoration and protection of lakes; what lakes mean to local communities; and their significance to the economy.
Through a programme of presentations, workshops and study tours the conference will integrate all those who work with lakes; and contribute to the development of the network of practitioners across Europe and beyond.
The conference will be held over four days from 18-21 May 2009. Further details can be found on the conference by clicking here.
Eden Rivers Trust Movies
The Eden Rivers Trust have produced four short flash movies, giving a graphic visual on waterfall movement, glacial movement, meandering ox bows and the water cycle. Please click here for further information and to view the files.
News Archive
Below is a table of archived news, please click on the webpage link to view the article of your choice.
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