Habitat Management
River catchments and their associated habitats are important for wildlife and a range of ecosystem functions that we all benefit from.
Over the past few hundred years river channels, and the catchments around them, have been modified and the natural habitats degraded for flood defence, land drainage for agriculture, water level management, high intensity arable and livestock farming.
This has led to poor habitat quality for fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates and plants including many protected UK and European species such as salmon, otter, water vole and rare chalk stream invertebrate species.